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Halliburton PSL Energy Services, the oil pipeline services company with 1,100 staff in Aberdeen, Great Yarmouth and overseas, has been acquired by Halliburton of the US for undisclosed terms. 30-Apr-2007 Halliburton is seeking planning permission to build a new £20m headquarters for 600 staff at the Kirkhill Industrial Estate in Aberdeen by 2008. 16-Nov-2006 Halliburton is planning to sell KBR Production Services, its engineering unit with 2,500 Aberdeen-based staff, to management for about £100m. 20-Mar-2006 Halliburton is to shed 60 jobs in its oil services business and has put on hold plans for a new headquarters in Aberdeen. 01-Jun-2004 Frazer-Nash Consultancy, the defence and aerospace consultancy with 160 staff, has been acquired by Halliburton of the US for about £12m. 26-Feb-2004 Halliburton of the US is to merge its subsea business with Norwegian offshore contractor DSND, and the new company will be based in Aberdeen. 22-Oct-2001 Halliburton Brown & Root, the energy services group, is to relocate 500 staff from Leatherhead to the South Point office building in Sutton over the next few months. 06-Mar-2001 Halliburton has won a pipeline fabrication contract from BHP for the Keith field, which will help to secure 230 jobs at its Rockwater plant in Wick. 13-Jan-2000 Halliburton has announced plans to close two Barmac oil platform fabrication yards near Inverness by next April, with the loss of about 3,300 jobs. 27-Nov-1999 Halliburton, the energy services group, has confirmed plans to cut about 600 jobs in Scotland by the spring. 26-Jan-1999 Halliburton is to cut about 250 jobs in the Aberdeen area as part of a worldwide rationalisation programme in response to falling oil prices. 30-Dec-1998 Halliburton Energy Services is to close its accounting operations in Arbroath and a number of other Scottish towns with the loss of 60 jobs, in order to centralise accounts in Leatherhead, Surrey. 25-Aug-1998 Shell Oil is forming a joint venture with Halliburton to develop drilling equipment that will reduce the cost of deep-water exploration. 05-Jun-1998 OGC International has recommended a £73m takeover bid from Halliburton, the US energy services company. 30-Jan-1997 OGC International, the oil and gas maintenance concern, has become the subject of a takeover approach from Halliburton Company of the US. 24-Dec-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007