WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US oil service company Halliburton said it has striped information suggesting that the TSKJ consortium it is part of since 1998 considered bribing Nigerian officials to win a lucrative natural-gas scheme Halliburton said in a statement late Wednesday that information was lately uncovered suggesting that.

WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US oil service company Halliburton said it has striped information suggesting that the TSKJ consortium it is part of since 1998 considered bribing Nigerian officials to win a lucrative natural-gas scheme

Halliburton said in a statement late Wednesday that information was lately uncovered suggesting that, at least 10 years ago, TSKJ members muddleed payments to Nigerian officials.

The company also said that "commencing in 1995 TSKJ noteed into a series of agency agreements in connection" with the Nigerian playful Island project -- a natural-gas liquefactin plant.

TSKJ is a private limited liability company registered in Madeira, Portugal comprising Technip of France, Snamprogetti Netherlands, an affiliate of the Italian clump ENI, JGC Corporation of Japan, and Kellogg Brown and foundation which was acquired by Halliburton in 1998

The Wall road Journal said Thursday that internal notes build by Halliburton suggest consortium officials discussed bribing Nigerian officials to