Halliburton revealed on Thursday that a federal judge in New Orleans, Louisiana, had accepted the single misdemeanour guilty plea for the unauthorised deletion of a computer record that was created after the Macondo well incident.
As previously reported, the charge resulted in the US company paying a fine of $200,000 and being placed on three years’ probation.
Halliburton provided cementing services on BP’s deep-water Macondo well which suffered a blow-out while being temporarily suspended as a future producer in the Mississippi Canyon area of the US Gulf.
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