Halliburton beat expectations with its second-quarter performance results, saying that its goals for exploring new oil sources in the United States have produced profits.

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The firm is now exploring other ways of meeting the ambitious targets that it has set for generating energy from renewable sources.

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We are also exploring new sources like tidal energy, which places propellers in San Francisco Bay that move with the tide, and livestock, where you capture cow manure for biogas.

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