Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation
responsible for most of the world's hydraulic fracturing operations.[6] In
2009, it was the world's second largest oil field service company. It has
operations in more
Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation
responsible for most of the world's hydraulic fracturing operations.[6] In
2009, it was the world's second largest oil field service company. It has
operations in more than 70 countries.[7] It owns hundreds of subsidiaries,
affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions worldwide and employs approximately
55,000 people.[8] The company has dual headquarters located in Houston and in
Dubai, and remains incorporated in the United States.[9][10][11]
Halliburton's major business segment is the Energy Services
Group (ESG). Halliburton's former subsidiary, KBR, is a major construction
company of refineries, oil fields, pipelines, and chemical plants. Halliburton
announced on April 5, 2007, that it had sold the division and severed its
corporate relationship with KBR, which had been its contracting, engineering
and construction unit as a part of the company.[12]
The company has been criticized for its involvement in
numerous controversies, including its involvement with Dick Cheney – as U.S.
Secretary of Defense, then CEO of the company, then Vice President of the
United States – and the Iraq War, and the Deepwater Horizon, for which it
agreed to settle outstanding legal claims against it by paying litigants $1.1
billion.
KBR, one of Halliburton's subsidiaries at the time, paid
bribes to high-ranking Nigerian officials between 1994 and 2004. Under a deal
reached with the U.S. Justice Department, Halliburton has agreed to pay $382
million to settle the bribery case.[13]
In 2015, Halliburton was found guilty in court for illegal
retaliation against a whistleblower who filed a report with the SEC over
concerns that the company was illegally concealing billions of dollars.[14][15]
The company has also been criticized for refusing to comply
with EPA requests for transparency around chemicals it uses in hydraulic
fracturing.[16]
Jeff Miller was promoted to President of Halliburton on
August 1, 2014, and CEO on June 1, 2017, replacing Dave Lesar.[17]