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Halliburton, Bechtel Win More Iraq Deals
August 28, 2003
Halliburton, Bechtel Win More Iraq Deals
By REUTERS
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-iraq-usa-contracts.html

Filed at 1:37 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. and Bechtel Group Inc., which have been
working to rebuild Iraq after the U.S.-led war, are expected to win more
contracts, The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal reported on
Thursday.
The Post reported that Halliburton, the world's second-largest oil field
service company, could make hundreds of millions more dollars than earlier
disclosed for services such as maintaining Iraqi oil fields under a U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers contract, according to documents surveyed by the
newspaper.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Agency for International
Development had recently said that San Francisco-based construction company
Bechtel will receive about $350 million for infrastructure projects. That
would amount to about 50 percent more than earlier allocated for Bechtel
services, the paper said.
Representatives at Halliburton and Bechtel were not immediately available to
comment.
The U.S. General Accounting Office has told aides to U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman,
a California Democrat, that Halliburton subsidiary Brown and Root is likely
to earn ``several hundred million more dollars'' from the no-bid Corps of
Engineers contract to rehabilitate oil fields, The Post said.
The paper also surveyed a spreadsheet provided by the Joint Munitions
Command that gave detailed estimates of money obligated to Brown and Root.
Houston-based Halliburton was once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.

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