{"article":{"id":33915,"heading":"Halliburton wins contract on Iraq oil firefighting","author":"Tricky Dick","created":"2003-03-08 07:22:05","modified":"2003-03-09 19:34:12","last_modified":"Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:34:12","article":"

Halliburton wins contract on Iraq oil firefighting

Reuters, 03.06.03, 8:31 PM ET



HOUSTON, March 6 (Reuters) - A Halliburton Co. (nyse: HAL - news - people) subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) has won the contract to oversee any firefighting operations at Iraqi oilfields after any U.S.-led invasion, a Defense Department source said on Thursday.

KBR was widely viewed by many in the oilfield services industry as the likely candidate to oversee firefighting in Iraq's oilfields. Halliburton does extensive logistic support work for the U.S. military.

Vice President Dick Cheney served as Halliburton's chief executive officer from 1995 to 2000,

A possible beneficiary of Thursday's deal is oilwell firefighting company Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc., with which Halliburton has had an alliance since 1995.

A Halliburton spokeswoman declined comment and referred all questions to the Defense Department.

Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home_europe\/newswire\/2003\/03\/06\/rtr900049.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"HOUSTON, March 6 (Reuters) - A Halliburton Co. (nyse: HAL - news - people) subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) has won the contract to oversee any firefighting operations at Iraqi oilfields after any U.S.-led invasion, a Defense Department source said on Thursday.\r\n","numcomment":15,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/33915.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":33970,"heading":"Surpirse,","article":"surprise, surprise!","author":"duff","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-08 16:51:27","modified":"2003-03-08 16:51:27","fileurl":""},{"id":34087,"heading":"I'm Shocked! Absolutely Shocked!","article":"But it's not about Oil or Money. Right Shills?","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-08 23:13:47","modified":"2003-03-08 23:13:47","fileurl":""},{"id":34111,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"BushBlower! You're Back Ya Big Douche!","author":"KPC","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 01:06:58","modified":"2003-03-09 01:06:58","fileurl":""},{"id":34112,"heading":"Aww","article":"It was one of the few times that monkeyboy\r\namused me.\r\nAt least he isn't going on with the mindless\r\nRushisms.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 01:11:37","modified":"2003-03-09 01:11:37","fileurl":""},{"id":34114,"heading":"It was a good choice","article":"Regardles of political contacts Halliburton is the largest and best run oil field services company in the world. Boots and Coots is run by a man named Red Adar he is the best capper (guy that puts out oil well fires) in the busness. He was the one that did the toughest wells after Gulf war 1","author":"Traveler","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 01:21:47","modified":"2003-03-09 01:21:47","fileurl":""},{"id":34120,"heading":"Re: It was a good choice","article":"Traveler wrote:\r\n\r\n> Regardles of political contacts Halliburton is the\r\n> largest and best run oil field services company in\r\n> the world. \r\n\r\nWhat you neglect to mention is that Halliburton became the "largest and best run oil field services company in the world" because of those "political contacts".\r\n\r\nHalliburton wouldn't have gone very far had it not been for the ties they established with politicians who themselves have very strong links to the oil industry they serve.\r\n","author":"Tricky Dick","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 02:03:53","modified":"2003-03-09 02:03:53","fileurl":""},{"id":34306,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"Stumbler:"Regardles of political contacts Halliburton is the largest and best run oil field services company in the world. "\r\n\r\nI think you've got the cart before the horse there...","author":"KCP","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 08:22:18","modified":"2003-03-09 08:22:18","fileurl":""},{"id":34308,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"You mean the fires set by US Special Forces?\r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/article.asp?ID=33","author":"KPC","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 08:25:54","modified":"2003-03-09 08:25:54","fileurl":""},{"id":34310,"heading":"Gush likes filth","article":"thats dirty, very dirty. You should be ashamed.....","author":"Fash","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 09:08:07","modified":"2003-03-09 09:08:07","fileurl":""},{"id":34315,"heading":"Straight from the Iraqi Oil Ministers mouth","article":"[\u201cWe did not set the oil fields on fire,\u201d said then-Iraqi Oil Minister Osama al-Hiti, to a SPOTLIGHT reporter in June 1992. ]\r\n\r\nWell damn, the Iraqi Oil Minister says the U.S. lit up the oil fields, not the Iraqi's. \r\n\r\nIraqi never lie.\r\n\r\nHmmm... wana buy a bridge? ","author":"MadMaxim","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 09:50:53","modified":"2013-11-10 23:48:58","fileurl":""},{"id":34342,"heading":"Getting at the root","article":"As well "Brown and Root" the construction company subsidiary of Halliburton has been tied to C.I.A. Ops in their overseas contruction activities.\r\n\r\nRed Adair may well be the best in the business at what he does but the question lingers. Why Halliburton and why now?","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 17:20:35","modified":"2003-03-09 17:20:35","fileurl":""},{"id":34354,"heading":"Do you think","article":""Why Halliburton and why now?"\r\n\r\nDo you think maybe because of it's relationship with Cheney? Sorta like how ALL business deals are made. Based on the relationship the supplier has with the buyer. ","author":"fresca","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 18:04:14","modified":"2003-03-09 18:04:14","fileurl":""},{"id":34384,"heading":"Not a surprise given that...","article":"...US soldiers set the oil wells on fire during the first gulf war so that the military could blame it on Saddam. The five soldiers who did this have recently been willing to talk about it...\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.paydaynet.org\/oilwellfires.htm\r\n\r\n000","author":"000","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 19:31:34","modified":"2003-03-09 19:31:34","fileurl":""},{"id":34388,"heading":"Dude....","article":"And there was a flying goat monkey that terrified the Mexicans as well? You are whack.","author":"Borg #348575325758203121pp 34474690","parent_id":33915,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-09 19:34:12","modified":"2003-03-09 19:34:12","fileurl":""}]}