Halliburton is a Entreprise Multinationale whose seat is with Houston (Texas) but announced the transfer to Dubai.

Group construction industry, and oil exploitation American founded in 1919 with Dallas, Texas by Erle Halliburton. Halliburton had for chairman of 1995 to 2000 the current American vice-president Dick Cheney.

Halliburton provides services to the companies of oil exploitation but even a development company is not it. Its origin and its seat are Duncan, Oklahoma if there no were removal during these last years.

Suppliers of the American army

War of Iraq

Halliburton signed from the 19th rank of the suppliers of the American army in 2002 to the first in 2003 after having profited from juicy contracts under doubtful conditions, in particular during the Guerre of Iraq.

The president of the Audit Board of the government to the Room of the representatives, Henry Waxman, denounced these contracts awarded without invitations to tender with the Halliburton company and his subsidiary company KBR. The director of KBR of the time, Al Neffgen, appeared before the Room of the representatives in 2004 to defend the surfacturations carried out by Halliburton on the abundant services with the army.

The scandal of the hospital Walter Reed

In February 2007, a scandal developed in connection with the conditions of reception of war wounded of Iraq. However, a letter of September 2006 per which the assistant of Weightman general evoked " a default risk of the services of soins" because of the consecutive shortage of personnel to a privatization of the general services of the hospital.

This privatization was carried out by a contract of 120 million dollars over five years to ensure the nonmedical services and the maintenance of the buildings. This contract was granted the company IAP, directed by Al Neffgen, former head of KBR, subsidiary of Halliburton.

Katrina

Halliburton obtained contracts of rebuilding to La Nouvelle-Orléans after the passage of the Cyclone Katrina in 2005. Its subsidiary company IAP had not succeeded in delivering the ice which had been ordered to him.

External bonds

• Official site of the Company Halliburton Inc.
• Profile of the company on Yahoo! Finance