Halliburton to pay $200k fine for destroying evidence

[cecilia]

has Halliburton gotten their comeuppance??

World's second-largest oilfield services company has pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge and agreed to be subject to three years of probation – apart from paying $200,000 fine – for destroying internal probe computer simulations into the cementing after the blowout at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Allegedly the probe showed little difference between using six and 21 centralizers while cementing the damaged oil rig well.

This has become the third guilty plea by a company over the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier the owners of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, BP and Transocean Ltd, also pleaded guilty over other accusations in connection with the Gulf oil spill, and agreed to pay criminal fines of $1.26 billion and $400 million respectively.

that's some "misdemeanor"

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

has Halliburton gotten their comeuppance??
that's some "misdemeanor"

A huge cost saving over not destroying evidence, I'd imagine.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

That's bout 16 hours of income going by the Q2 figures.