Erle halliburton biography
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Halliburton
American energy services and products company
For other uses, see Haliburton (disambiguation).
Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation and the world's second-largest oil service company which is responsible for most of the world's fracking operations.[6] It employs approximately 55, people through its hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions in more than 70 countries.[7][8] The company, though incorporated in the United States, has dual headquarters located in Houston and in Dubai.[9][10][11]
Halliburton's major business segment is the Energy Services Group (ESG). KBR, a public company and former Halliburton subsidiary, is a major construction company of refineries, oil fields, pipelines, and chemical plants. Halliburton announced on April 5, , that it had sold the division and severed its corporate relationship with KBR, which had been its contracting, e
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Erle P. Halliburton
“There was no such thing as the ‘good old days.’ They were filled with back-breaking labor that aged people before their time. Thank God that American inventiveness has given us the marvelous machines with which we now play and work.”
Erle P. Halliburton
Biography
Erle Palmer Halliburton was born on a farm in Tennessee and attended school in Ripley, but his father’s death when he was 14 ended his plans for college. At that time, he began working in railroad construction camps, and at 16 he was operating a steam crane loading Mississippi River barges. He enlisted in the Navy at 18 and operated the Navy’s first motor barge. Back in the U.S. at 23 years of age, he became chef of Water Distribution for the Dominguiz Company in California, the largest pressure irrigation project in the world at that time. The turning point came one year later, in , when he was fired from his job with Perkins Oil Well Cementing Company. Cementing of wells was i
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Erle P. Halliburton
American businessman (–)
Erle Palmer Halliburton was an American businessman specializing in oil field services.
Early life
[edit]Halliburton was born on September 22, , near Henning, Tennessee, the son of Lou Emma (Cothran) and Edwin Graves Halliburton.[1] When Halliburton was 12 years old, his father died. At 14, Halliburton left home to support the family. As a youth, he learned how to operate heavy machinery such as a locomotive, a steam crane, and a steam shovel. Later, Halliburton was a salesman in New York.
Business career
[edit]Before the United States entered into World War I, Halliburton gained exposure to shipboard engineering as a member of the United States Navy. After his honorable discharge in , he headed for the oilfields of California, where he was able to apply techniques analogous to the technology with which he had worked in the Navy. His drive and his sense of innovation soon brought him into conflict with his boss,