[jeffkrol]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/us/29spill.html?src=me

the commission staff determined that Halliburton had conducted three laboratory tests that indicated that the cement mixture did not meet industry standards.

The result of at least one of those tests was given on March 8 to BP, which failed to act upon it, the panel’s lead investigator, Fred H. Bartlit Jr., said in a letter delivered to the commissioners on Thursday.

Another Halliburton cement test, carried out about a week before the blowout of the well on April 20, also found the mixture to be unstable, yet those findings were never sent to BP, Mr. Bartlit found.

[reeftool]

All the parties involved will be passing the buck back and forth for years on this one.

[lowspark86]

Halliburton is one of the most crooked businesses around. If by some strange and miraculous circumstance they are "officially" found to be at fault and are held responisble I'm confident they will be repaid billions in even more no-bid contracts to their subsidiaries as a thank you for taking the fall. Profit for everyone! They can probably still funnel money to themselves through KBR and other companies using all the shell companies they have set up all over the world.