Company type | Public |
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Industry | Fossil fuel |
Founded | 1919Duncan, Oklahoma, U.S. | , in
Founder | Erle P. Halliburton |
Headquarters | Houston, Texas and Dubai UAE |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jeff Miller (president, CEO and chairman of the board) |
Revenue | US$23.02 billion (2023) |
US$4.083 billion (2023) | |
US$2.662 billion (2023) | |
Total assets | US$24.68 billion (2023) |
Total equity | US$9.433 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 48,000 (2023) |
Website | halliburton.com |
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Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation and the world's second-largest oil service company which is responsible for most of the world's fracking operations.[6] It employs approximately 55,000 people through its hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions in more than 70 countries.[7][8] The company, though incorporated in the United States, has dual headquarters located in Houston and in Dubai.[9][10][11]
Halliburton's major business segment is the Energy Services Group (ESG). KBR, a public company and former Halliburton subsidiary, 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 United States Environmental Protection Agency 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]
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