The damage to employers like Halliburton is greater than the benefit to consumers.

As drilling shuts down, the oil-field service company adapts.

Tony Menendez blew the whistle on Halliburton’s accounting practices. The fight cost him nine years of his life.

As oil prices fall, so do profits and headcounts at Halliburton.

A potentially huge fine looms as the BP oil-spill trial enters a new phase.

The offshore-drilling giant Transocean is tied in with BP in the public imagination because of its involvement in the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

Halliburton will pay a $200,000 penalty, but says it will not face any criminal prosecution for the act.

British oil giant BP has filed court papers demanding the Houston-based firm Halliburton pay billions of dollars in clean-up and compensation costs for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the lawsuit, BP holds Halliburton responsible for the failure of a cement lid placed over the blown out deepwater oil well, and thus the entire cleanup for the incident.