Halliburton, Erle P.
Erle P. Halliburton (1892-1957), an American engineer who perfected the technique of cementing oil wells in 1912. Oil well cementing firmly binds casing in an oil well to prevent pollution of freshwater aquifers and to make oil and gas production more efficient. Early cementing jobs were very rudimentary, involving hand-mixing. Halliburton developed the “Cement Jet Mixer,” an on-the-fly mixing machine that eliminated the hand-mixing of cement at the well site. He established the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company in 1919, and his innovation soon became widely used. The company is known today as Haliburton, one of the largest energy corporations in the world with offices in more than 100 nations.
Further Reading
Halliburton Company (Handbook of Texas Online)
Halliburton History: Entrepreneurial Beginnings (Halliburton)
