President Bush Tuesday asked Congress for $489.3 million to cover the cost of repairing damage to Iraq's oil facilities, much or all of which could go to Halliburton or its subcontractors under the terms of its contract with the Army.
Well, I wouldn't get too far ahead. There are plenty of other oil fields that have been torched to a much larger degree. It's just the ones near the Kuwaiti border that were secured very early in the fighting that are able to resume production.