Halliburton

Erle Palmer Halliburton and his wife Vida C Tabor established the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company in Oklahoma in 1919. This company would become known as Halliburton after 1960. He also designed the aluminum suitcases which are now manufactured by Zero Halliburton.

David J. Lesar, is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. Trained as a Certified Public Accountant, Lesar... spent 16 years at Arthur Andersen. He had spent most of his career at Andersen, where he worked on their Halliburton account. In 1995, Lesar was hired by Halliburton as a new vice president. Three months later he had a new boss, Dick Cheney. Within a year of his arrival, Cheney had fired Tommy Knight—a 32-year Kellogg, Brown and Root veteran—and named Lesar the new CEO of KBR, in addition to his duties as CFO of Halliburton. In May 1997, Cheney elevated Lesar to President and COO. After Cheney's departure, in 2000, Lesar became CEO of Halliburton. He also serves on the board of directors at Lyondell Chemical and is also a member of the Upstream Committee of the American Petroleum Institute. The movie Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers claims that Lesar has been paid over $42,000,000.00 by Halliburton, since beginning of Iraq war. He is also on the board of directors of the American Iranian Council, an organization devoted to the normalization of American-Iranian relations.
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