Geez! Y’all are just wrong. But you’re too busy bashing ‘big oil’ to actually learn about or know what happened. It’s pathetic really.
First off, Halliburton weren’t the ones responsible for the failure or the ensuing disaster. And they didn’t fiendishly destroy evidence to avoid criminal prosecution, knowing that they’d done something wrong and needing to cover their tracks.
They had merely deleted a couple of test case results from a scenario they’d ran using some of their software. But when the prosecutors learned they’d deleted anything associated with that failed well, they saw the opportunity to hold them partially accountable and charged them. Halliburton saw the handwriting on the wall and opted to avoid a long and expensive court case and went ahead and just admitted guilt and paid the fine.
Hell, if you read the article instead of just the headline you can see what I’ve just said is far closer to reality than your rants.
