Halliburton skipped key test
HALLIBURTON admitted skipping a key cement test before the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico blowout, as the oil services behemoth found itself on Friday in the crosshairs of a US presidential probe.
Halliburton, the oil services company once run by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, doubled its profits in the last quarter of 2010, even as the US government tarred it with ``systemic failures'' in the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster.