BP says Halliburton destroyed evidence.

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In a court filing, oil company B.P. alleged that Halliburton's cement work was inadequate and asked a federal judge to punish the oilfield services company. The cement slurry in question went into drilling the Macendo oil well that blew out April 10, 2010, killing 11 and resulting in billions of dollars in cleanup costs and lawsuits.

Citing recent depositions and Halliburton's own documents, BP said Halliburton "intentionally" destroyed the results of slurry testing for the well, in part to "eliminate any risk that this evidence would be used against it at trial," MSNBC.com reported.

Also in the documents filed in a New Orleans federal court:

* BP accused Halliburton of failing to produce incriminating computer modeling evidence.

* BP accused Halliburton of claiming the modeling is gone and asked U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to order a court-sponsored computer forensic team to recover the missing modeling results.

A Halliburton spokesperson said it believes BFs accusations are without merit and it will contest the motion in court. Beverly Blohm Stafford, a spokeswoman for Halliburton, told Reuters the Houston-based company is reviewing BP's filing.

Three companies responsible for the disaster--BP PLC and its contractors, Halliburton and Transocean Ltd.--have been blaming each other for the Deepwater Horizon blast, which spilled 206 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, according to media reports. So far, BP has paid for most of the...