It was also involved in the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, which cut its stock price more than in half.
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Halliburton ( HAL) is suing BP ( BP) for negligent misrepresentation, business disparagement and defamation related to the April 2010 Macondo well explosion, in a suit filed in state court in Texas.
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Before she ruled, the judge heard an apology from a BP executive and emotional testimony from relatives of the 11 workers who died when BP's blown-out Macondo well triggered an explosion on the rig and started the spill.
The BP well erupted after an explosion and fire on the leased Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20 that killed 11 people.
Jean-Michel Servant in the Midi Libre daily says the uncertain outcome of the vote "might well lead to the explosion of the UMP - or hasten the return to business of a certain Nicolas Sarkozy".
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The well erupted after an April 20 explosion aboard the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon that left 11 men dead.
Halliburton also faces legal challenges, particularly related to the explosion of the Macondo deepwater well that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.
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In September, a government report on the spill found that BP, rig owner Transocean and well cement contractor Halliburton shared responsibility for the explosion, but BP was "ultimately responsible" for operations at the site.
About 39 minutes before the explosion, pressure was building in the well.
The 20th was the day of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig above the well that killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
As the explosion of online creative work amply demonstrates, well-paid Google employees will happily work gratis on open-source solutions and hundreds of thousands of highly skilled and educated people will contribute their expertise on blogs and Wikipedia entries.
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He also mentioned Marine Joe Townsend, who is still recovering in Selly Oak and will receive his medal there, as well as Captain Sim Jemmet, who was blinded in an explosion but had recovered enough of his vision to return to work.
Among the company's motivations to settle before a trial would be to avoid the higher end of that range, which U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier could impose if he ruled the company acted with gross negligence before the well blowout on April 10, 2010, that triggered an explosion, killing 11 workers and spawning the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
The explosion and ensuing fire killed 11 workers and ruptured a well deep below the surface.
How well governments manage to trim their public sectors, without triggering an explosion, may depend on elusive factors like trust in the political system.
That explosion claimed the lives of 11 workers and caused the Macondo well to leak crude into the Gulf of Mexico until July.
The world of telecoms is in rapid flux as the data explosion generated by the Internet and the arrival of competition from well-financed and aggressive upstarts turns the old order upside down.
You could either do it separately if the integrity of the wellbore has been maintained through the explosion, and if not, it helps when the relief well intersects to the well in having a separate point of pressurization for mud and cement.
We are amid an explosion of titles that suggests that all financial-service providers are well-trained and educated (and of similar expertise) to understand what they are recommending to investors.
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The Halliburton information also disclosed an additional test in early April, prior to the explosion, that involved the same mix that was used on the Macondo well and also found it to be unstable, the letter said.
An explosion on an offshore rig killed 11 workers and ruptured a deep-sea well head, which took 84 days to seal.
Two hours before the explosion there was more fluid entering the system, indicating a likely influx from the well.
In New York, the US financial capital, an explosion at a sub-station caused power outages and darkened most of downtown Manhattan as well as Westchester County and affected more than 650, 000 customers, power company Consolidated Edison said.
That year an explosion at the company's Texas City refinery killed 15 people and injured 180, as well as causing huge damage.
"Well No. 4 in this area was being drilled at this site here when suddenly an underground steam explosion managed to get its way to the surface, " he explains.
Unfortunately, much of the data that will enable an entrepreneurial explosion is still locked up in paper records, in proprietary data formats, and by well-intentioned but conflicting privacy regulations.
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