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Halliburton's PowerPoint Template is a Human Rights Violation
Probably the most horrifying revelation of Halliburton's involvement with the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil rig (they did some of the deep water work, apparently!) is just how hideous their PowerPoint template is. Would you really buy a private army/gun/oil rig from that presentation?
Trying to figure out if that title is word art faux-3d shit, or just duplicated text.
Duplicated text.
Favorite part of this debacle is the gov't capped liability that BP sees. They max out at $75 million + cleanup costs, which includes any and all payouts to any and all damaged parties, and is really not very much.
The bullet-point writing is abysmal as well.
"How can we carry our blood-for-oil brand forward into every nook and cranny of this company?"
i'd buy an army from them, but not an oil rig (well, i would have but now that would just seem foolish)
I would recruit for the Forces of Darkness with that PowerPoint template.
I mean, READ the fucking thing. If a cement-cure failure destablizied the well from Day One, then this is proof that Halliburton (and its upstream contractors, BP, and whomever else) KNEW that their well security was an untested crap shoot.
The real "challenge," if so, is keeping the punitive damage award against these fucks to something less than public ownership of these companies. God, is this infuriating, no pun etc.
And it looks like one of the "worse cases," wherein the consequences are indeed more severe.
You ask: "Would you really buy a private army/gun/oil rig from that presentation?" If the presenter is Dick Cheney, and the potential buyer is any number of the the usual suspects– there you have the answer.