US company Halliburton exported equipment worth $7.1m to Russia in past year, customs records show
US company Halliburton exported equipment worth $7.1m to Russia in past year, customs records show
Exclusive: US oil multinationals face questions over trade with Russia amid pressure to cease operations
The bulk of exports from the subsidiaries ended on 6 October but the last shipment to Russia from a Halliburton company, recorded as Halliburton MFG in the records, was of a sealing element priced at $2,939.40 on 24 October 2022 from Malaysia to a firm called Sakhalin Energy, a consortium that is developing the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in eastern Russian. Its investors include Gazprom. Shell disinvested from the consortium after the invasion of Ukraine.
Do they do anything that's not evil?
They hand out lots of thoughts and prayers for free
For free?! Their shareholders will not be happy.
Well, they are remarkably consistent at being morally bankrupt, I'll give them that.
It would be suspicious if they did the right thing.
Gee, it's like this is a company based in capitalist United States doing what capitalists do best: sell to the highest bidder and keep customers as long as possible.
/s
Source: I'm an American
sell to the highest bidder
and keep customers as long as possible.To increase short term gain, we had to downsize the project scope.
At least Americans stopped selling their false Democratic dream: it became just a non-wanted side effect to immediately eliminate
When Shell has the moral high ground on you, you really have a problem.
Dick, "Darth", " no u apologize for getting in the way of my shot", "operation Iraqi liberation (OIL)" Cheney must be proud.
**operation Iraqi liberation (OIL) : An Aug. 13 2003 Washington Post article covering a series of U.S. military raids in Iraq called “Operation Ivy Lightning” notes that mission’s regrettable “OIL” acronym, and mentions rumors that military officials earlier that year avoided naming the war Operation Iraqi Liberation.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
US oil and gas multinationals are facing fresh questions over their trade with Russia after customs records revealed that more than $7.1m (£5.7m) worth of equipment manufactured by Halliburton has been exported into the country since it announced the end of its Russian operations.
Last September Halliburton, one of the world’s largest providers of products and services for oil and gas exploration, sold its Russian office to local management amid pressure on all US companies to cease their trade after the invasion of Ukraine.
According to customs records, exports to Russia of Halliburton equipment, which range in type from pumps, to wrenches for the drilling of wells, and cement additives, continued until at least the end of June this year.
Earlier this month, the head of the US Senate foreign relations committee, Bob Menendez, wrote to Halliburton and their competitors SLB and Baker Hughes, after reports that the companies had continued to trade with Russia to various degrees after the invasion of Ukraine in February last year.
Halliburton, which was led by the former US vice-president Dick Cheney, posted a gross profit for the 12 months ending 30 June 2023 of $4.052bn, a 63.19% increase year-on-year despite writing off $300m on the sale of the Russian operation.
Glib Kanevskyi, chief executive of the Kyiv-based thinktank StateWatch, said that western governments needed to do more to persuade their large companies to better control the distribution of products which could be useful to the Russian economy.
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all the petroleum companies just went right ahead doing business as usual, they don't give a fuck