There are plenty of reasons to hate on Halliburton. This however is not one of them. Please take the extra time to read not just the headline. If you did you’d see “Halliburton had recommended to BP the use of 21 centralizers in the Macondo well. BP opted to use six centralizers instead.”
and the evidence destroyed would have actually helped Halliburton
“Displace 3D simulation program to compare the impact of using six versus 21 centralizers. Displace 3D was a next-generation simulation program that was being developed to model fluid interfaces and their movement through the wellbore and annulus of a well. These simulations indicated that there was little difference between using six and 21 centralizers. Program Manager was directed to, and did, destroy these results.”
