BP: Halliburton Destroyed Key Gulf Oil Spill Evidence

NEW ORLEANS — BP in a high-stakes court filing is accusing Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the nation's worst offshore oil spill.

On Monday in a New Orleans federal court, BP accused Halliburton of having intentionally destroyed evidence about possible problems with its cement slurry poured into the deep-sea Macondo well about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. An oil well must be cemented properly to avoid blowouts.

Also in the court documents, BP accused Halliburton of failing to produce incriminating computer modeling evidence. Halliburton says the modeling is gone.

BP asked a judge to penalize Halliburton and order a court-sponsored computer forensic team to recover the missing modeling results.

Comments

[Despyria]

12:38 PM on 12/07/2011

Nothing substantial will happen. Coverup from both and both are protected.

[vaygollybum]

12:17 PM on 12/07/2011

And we are supprised!? WHY????????

[Frank-Landfield]

08:45 AM on 12/07/2011

BP VS Halliburton!
This is gonna be good!
Vote democrat!

[wwhatever747]

06:02 AM on 12/07/2011

After this issue's solved then something else comes up, goes around and around. Point your finger at BP's CEO that sold his stocks to pay off his Mansion, Toys and Self Pleasing Materials that he has done within 2 weeks of the original diaster. Got himself taken care of first.

[jedikngt6294]

03:41 AM on 12/07/2011

what is going to happen to all of these countries when we do run out of oil. I have an idea, forget wuotas and limits, I say drill baby drill, get all the oil and all the natural gas as fast as possible, bleed the planet dry. And when there is no more oil and gas and we are back to living in the stone age, maybe then some of these countries will start developing better green energy ,solar, wind, electric etc.... of course we'll all have rebreathers and the only animals other than us on the planet will be roaches, but the oil companies will finally be closed and maybe the planet can start healing....

[jedikngt6294]

03:37 AM on 12/07/2011

I'm sure Dick Cheney has copies at his house, but you gotta watch out for the shot guns....his eyesights going and he may mistake you for a pheasent

[LastAngryWoman]

01:04 PM on 12/07/2011

or even a peasant

[tmharel]

03:02 AM on 12/07/2011

What "DOESN'T" Haliburton have its fingers in ? ?
And didn't we just hear about Haliburtons LEADER threatening a Congresswoman ?
Dick Cheney must be a PROUD !

[rogerb-ri]

02:02 AM on 12/07/2011

The rats are lining up to be thrown off the rig.
And the Pee Potty and the gang of 6 want to let these people drill in Alaska or the Grand Caynon.
Sure we can trust them. Look at all of those nice pictures in their vacation commercials.

[jep121212]

11:49 PM on 12/06/2011

STOP BLAMING HALIBURTON

THEY ARE JOB CREATORS WHO ONLY DO GOOD.

Why are the the little people complaining? It doesnt matter if the fish are mutating and the shrimp are contaminated!!

[mnbigbuddy]

12:18 AM on 12/07/2011

Sounds like you have been eating too many of those mutated fish and conyaminated shrimp.

[jep121212]

01:04 AM on 12/07/2011

It was sarcasm! maybe not so obvious! Sorry!

[tmharel]

03:07 AM on 12/07/2011

conYaminated ? ?

[tmharel]

03:06 AM on 12/07/2011

And so WHAT if they KIll 14 innocent people in Iraq and try to cover it up.
All in a good days PROFIT.

[Jenagain]

11:05 PM on 12/06/2011

Let Brazil dig for oil. Obama said we'd buy from them. Forget that we have tons of oil in our own country. You dig, we buy. Sort of like China. You manufacture, we buy. Cause we have SO much money to spend. sigh.

[rogerb-ri]

02:05 AM on 12/07/2011

If they drilled for oil in your back yard ,you would never see aa drop of it.
Remember the pipeline from Canada to the Gulf. This makes it easier to get on a tanker where the price is set by world market and sent to China

[George Ky]

10:49 PM on 12/06/2011

Halliburton, with their vast array of bought-off Congressmen and Dick Cheny will beat this. America is in the hands of the corporations who will do anything that they want to us. People seem to respond to attack ads that inspire fear and hate and vote accordingly. At least, I hope Dick Cheny dies....SOON!

[warrencoons]

10:40 PM on 12/06/2011

Haliburton and BP should be facing criminal charges

[jep121212]

11:51 PM on 12/06/2011

Shame on you for disparaging the job creators! Where would the Gulf of Mexico be without the job creators?

[mnbigbuddy]

12:14 AM on 12/07/2011

At least it wouldn't be so polluted.

[warrencoons]

04:28 PM on 12/07/2011

It appears your sarcasm went right over the heads of some.

[rogerb-ri]

02:07 AM on 12/07/2011

hey 29 miners were killed in the coal mine disaster and no one was even charged. who cares if they were fined?
Companies never pay. Crime does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Genders]

10:17 PM on 12/06/2011

I love it when the criminals accuses each other...

[Ray Wigton]

12:00 AM on 12/11/2011

I do too, but in the end neither will be held accountable for the loss of income from fishing etc along the gulf.

[flksbutton]

10:08 PM on 12/06/2011

Another case of the pot calling the kettle black.

[ccsysglf]

09:38 PM on 12/06/2011

elite vs elite in an open court room, this could make for some really good reading.......