[Johnny Blaze]

Voor de puzzelaars hier:

Halliburton said Monday its first-quarter profit slumped nearly 46 percent with the industry still recovering from last year's drop in oil drilling.
The Houston oil services company reported earnings of $206 million, or 23 cents a share, in the first three months of the year. That compares with $378 million, or 42 cents a share, in the prior-year period.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/6965173.html

A cementing job done by a Halliburton crew just hours before the oil accident in the Gulf of Mexico has emerged as a central focus of the investigation.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=126536457


Dan wordt het plot dikker (even langs 2 zijden tonen):

De "conspiracy" zijde:

The oil well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico could be a well-timed and profitable accident for Halliburton, the global oil company with the famous connection to former U.S. Vice President D*ck Cheney. Just eight days before the uber-Valdez accident, Houston-based Halliburton acquired Boots & Coots Services, also based in Houston, in a $240 million cash and stock deal.

http://www.datehookup.com/Thread-455160.htm

En de "mainstream" zijde:

In 1978, Edward "Coots" Matthews and Asger "Boots" Hansen founded Boots & Coots (WEL). Both were veteran oil-well firefighters. In fact, they provided inspiration for a 1968 film called Hellfighters, starring John Wayne.

But the days of independence have come to an end for Boots & Coots as the company has agreed to sell out to Halliburton (HAL) for $240.4 million. Shareholders will get $1.73 in cash and $1.27 in Halliburton stock for every share of Boots & Coots.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/in...oots/19435689/

verder:

How did the Gulf oil rig explode? A prominent theory adds Halliburton to the mix. Workers had just finished cementing the well when the rig blew, leading experts to speculate that a flaw in this process could have caused the explosion. Halliburton, the largest company in the global cementing business, was in charge of cementing the well.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...l-spill/56131/

Tony Hayward (BP chief) cashed in about a third of his holding in the company one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst, causing an environmental disaster.
Mr Hayward, whose pay package is £4 million a year, then paid off the mortgage on his family’s mansion in Kent, which is estimated to be valued at more than £1.2 million.

There is no suggestion that he acted improperly or had prior knowledge that the company was to face the biggest setback in its history.
His decision, however, means he avoided losing more than £423,000 when BP’s share price plunged after the oil spill began six weeks ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...oil-spill.html


en "Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of BP stock before spill" (yep diezelfde die ook mede verantwoordelijk zijn voor de financiële crisis)

Firm's stock sale nearly twice as large as any other institution; Represented 44 percent of total BP investment

The brokerage firm that's faced the most scrutiny from regulators in the past year over the shorting of mortgage related securities seems to have had good timing when it came to something else: the stock of British oil giant BP.

According to regulatory filings, RawStory.com has found that Goldman Sachs sold 4,680,822 shares of BP in the first quarter of 2010. Goldman's sales were the largest of any firm during that time.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0602/mon...lion-bp-stock/


Weeral dezelfde spelers van de laatste jaren aan het werk en sommigen geloven nog steeds steevast in toeval. Ik niet. Sorry dat de post zo rommelig is opgesteld, maar ik ben aan't werk en heb dit vlug tijdens een render in mekaar gebokst.