As protesters gather in Oklahoma for this year's Halliburton stockholders meeting, Corpwatch Director Pratap Chatterjee has given an excellent overview of Halliburton's involvement in oil exploration.

[extract from Democracy Now broadcast} 

"Halliburton is actually one of the principle players in the issue of
climate change, and the reason is that it's so profitable for them and
for the oil companies. Halliburton, in fact, is the company that
pioneered a lot of the offshore drilling technologies, the fracturing
technologies. So it's incredibly profitable for them to do this work,
and they do this and they’re part of pretty much every major oil
operation around the world.

So whether you're talking about gas
pipelines in the Caspian Sea or you're talking about Alaska,
Halliburton has been there and been part of that, and they continue to
profit in countries from Nigeria, and today, actually, in Peru, the
largest natural gas reserve being tap in the Amazonian rainforest is a
project between Hunt Energy of Texas and Halliburton. So, the more oil
that's tapped when, as we fail to look for or implement alternatives,

Halliburton is a company that profits out of that. It's not just Shell
and Exxon. Every single one of those companies uses Halliburton, and
therefore they profit from every single oil exploration project there
is, whether it’s offshore or onshore."

Chatterjee has just released an alternative report on the company's activities for the year, which I'll report on ASAP