Halliburton News

A pair of Kentucky men who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are suing two U.S. military contractors and accusing the companies of exposing them to toxic fumes and ash from "burn pits." The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville on Monday by former Air Force Sgt.

Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company.

Saudi Arabia: 2 hours, 15 minutes ago Saudi Aramco has awarded US-based oilfield services corporation, Halliburton a broad five-year oilfield service contract to develop wells in the world's largest oil field, South Ghawar, Reuters has reported.

In 2005, 19-year-old Jamie Leigh Jones of Houston was working for Halliburton/KBR in the Green Zone, Iraq.

Four Colorado veterans are the latest to file "burn pit" lawsuits against military contractors accused of exposing soldiers to toxic fumes and ash.

It hasn't been a top-notch earnings season for the oilfield services sector. Halliburton , the second-largest participant in the group, led off with mediocre results, but did manage to beat expectations.

Halliburton Co. said Friday it received a contract to drill and complete oil wells in Saudi Arabia's Ghawar field.

Well, here we are again. One more time we get to ask ourselves why did this man get elected as VP...and then get re-elected? ...Former A.G. Gonzales and former V.P. Cheney, both indicted on charges involving Texas Federal Prisons.

At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." So you might think we'd be the last people to give virtual ink to such "news." And we would be -- if that were all we were doing.

I didn't get to comment on Nabors Industries ' quarterly results last week, but here's the gist of that company's conference call: The numbers were even worse than management expected, but this looks like the bottom.

So far for this quarter, we've heard pretty positive things from Newfield Exploration and Range Resources .

The conviction of arms dealers and former top government officials in France could help to shed light on Dick Cheney's Halliburton years.

HOUSTON, BUSINESS WIRE -- Landmark, a brand of Halliburton , announced today that it had, in partnership with Shell, completed the first of several critical deployments in the global rollout of R5000 versions of Landmark software.

Halliburton announced today that it has acquired Geo-Logic Systems, LLC. Founded in 1983, Geo-Logic Systems is the leading provider of advanced structural interpretation, analysis and restoration software for complex geologic environments.

BP PLC, Europe's second-largest oil company, reported a 34 percent fall in third-quarter profit to $5.3 billion - better than markets expected - as oil and gas prices fell from record levels a year earlier.

Picking one's battles has never been trickier, especially if you're a member of the benighted Republican Party.

Landmark, a brand of Halliburton , today launches GeoGraphix DiscoveryTM 3D software, the new Microsoft Windows PC-based offering incorporating state-of-the-art interactive visualization tools from Microsoft's Xbox gaming console and the 64-bit capabilities and performance of the new Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

Oil and gas services provider Schlumberger reported earnings on Friday morning. The company earned $787 million, or 65 cents per share, during the third quarter, a drop of 48 percent from the same quarter last year.

With crude oil finally pushing past $75 a barrel and coming to rest at a fresh 52-week high around $77 a barrel, hope will no doubt be renewed that black gold is poised to make another bullish run.

On Nov. 15, Americans will celebrate America Recycles Day. Recycling is a simple way in which everyone in Penn sylvania can protect the environment, preserve our natural resources and con tribute to the economic well-being of our nation.