UPDATE 2-Halliburton wins drilling tender in Iran-official

[NVMojo]

TEHRAN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.S. oil services company Halliburton, whose operations in Iran have come under investigation by U.S. authorities, has won a tender to drill a huge Iranian gas field, an official said on Sunday.

A U.S. grand jury issued a subpoena to the Texan firm in July, seeking information about its Cayman Islands unit's work in Iran, where it is illegal for U.S. companies to operate.

Halliburton insists it is not illegal for offshore subsidiaries, such as Halliburton Products & Services Limited, to work in the Islamic Republic, where it provides a range of services to the lumbering state oil company.

more...

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh12534_2005-01-09_09-08-06_l09131331_newsml

[Nikepallas]

1. It doesn't matter how against the law it is for Hallibutron to be there

this company/corporation whatever you want to call this drain on society is now above the law and can do what it wants when it wants.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Do you think Iran is afraid NOT to do bidness with Halliburton?

Maybe Halliburton has their officials afraid of rejecting them, as in the "protection" rackets the Mafia has been known to run on vulnerable people.

[NVMojo]

11. that or they will get invaded by the ***

[AlbizuX]

3. consorting with an Axis of Evil country...

but, but, but....i thought Halliburton was a patriotic company!

[Nikepallas]

9. AlbizuX Halliburton is a patriotic company....Patriotic to itself and

BUSHCO.

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[regularjoe]

6. what are you talking about ?!?

[NVMojo]

7. regular, I think that was a real jerk freeper ...

[KerryReallyWon]

5. Who would have thought?

:shrug:

[Just Me]

8. I wonder what the "loophole" is this company slipped into our,...

,...corporate-controlled governance.

Corporatism IS fascism. Ask Mussolini and Hitler, both of whom must be in total envy of the neoCONimperialists from their graves.

[NVMojo]

10. that's it, corporate controlled governance. Bechtel just got NV's

Homeland Security contract ...Red state, red companies...

[cosmicdot]

12. dear **, would this be trading with the enemy?

whether officially or morally?

or is that only if Congress resumes its constitutional role, and actually declares war on Iran?

or are sovereign nations declared by you and yours as part of an 'axis of evil' not our enemy???

or is it OK to do business with an an 'axis of evil' country, like Iran, if the contract paperwork is done via P.O. Box in the Caymans?

I'm a tad confused.

They hate us for our freedom, but 'let's do lunch'. :shrug:

check with Poppy re family history/trading w/the enemy ... have someone write something for you to read in response

p.s. btw, we really should clamp down on that off-shore Cayman Island type business thingy ... that set-up just seems to invite activities which just might affect our homeland security ...

got to go ... left the car double-parked near the corner of Buzzy Krongard Street and Parallel Universe Blvd ... ciao ...

[No Exit]

15. LMAO!

"They hate us for our freedom, but let's do lunch."

National borders mean nothing to international plunderers/corporations. The Bush crime family and their friends are "beyond" national borders and all that old stuff (such things are important only to us peasants.) How humorously ironic that one of them (the retarded one) is now hiding behind "love of country".

Check with Poppy about trading with the enemy? Yeah--and he could've checked with Grandpa Prescott, too.

[alfredo]

13. the money Iran gets from its dealings with Chenyburton

can and will be used against us.

[maddezmom]

14. perhaps Iran is off * radar now

:shrug:

[TexasLawyer]

16. $315 million contract

US Halliburton wins gas contract in Iran despite sanctions

Here are some more details on the Halliburton/Iran deal (from the Middle East Times). I sure hope that tripling Iran's oil production by 2010 doesn't help Iran's power-mad theocracy to finance further additions to its already burgeoning nuclear arsenal. Axis of evil, you know. Might have to invade!



http://metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050111-060336-5280r



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"Halliburton and Oriental Kish are the final winners of the tender for drilling South Pars phases 9 and 10," Pars Oil and Gas Company managing director Akbar Torkan said, according to state television. An unnamed Pars company board member said that the deal for the gas fields in the Gulf off the south coast of Iran was worth about $310 million. He said that Halliburton had not directly signed the contract but that it had offered its services via Oriental Kish.

Under a law introduced in 1996 the United States threatens sanctions on both American and foreign companies investing more than $40 million in Iran's petroleum industry. Halliburton, once chaired by US Vice-President Dick Cheney, has come under investigation in the United States for its dealings with Iran through a Cayman Islands subsidiary.

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The United States also accuses Iran of covertly trying to develop nuclear weapons, a charge vehemently denied by Tehran.

Iran, which is OPEC's second-largest oil exporter, also has the world's second largest gas reserves. Phases 9 and 10 of South Pars, operated jointly by South Korean and Iranian companies, are expected to produce 50 million cubic meters (1.8 billion cubic feet) of natural gas, 80,000 barrels of condensates and 400 tons of sulfur a day.

In addition, the phases are expected to produce each year 1 million tons of ethane for petrochemical feedstock and 1.05 million tons of liquefied petroleum gas for export. Iran hopes to boost gas output from 110 billion cubic meters a year in 2000 to 292 billion cubic meters in 2010. Gas accounts for about one-third of Iran's domestic energy consumption.

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