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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     Contact - Guy T. Marcus
January 30, 1995                    Vice President-Inv. Rel.
                                    (214) 978-2691

               BROWN & ROOT WINS MULTI-MILLION
                  POLYPROPYLENE EXPANSION

     DALLAS, Texas -- Halliburton Company announced today that
the Brown & Root Petroleum and Chemicals business unit of its
Brown & Root, Inc. subsidiary recently won a multi-million dollar
contract to construct a polypropylene plant at the Phillips
Sumika Polypropylene Company (PSPC) Houston chemical complex in
Pasadena, Texas.  Brown & Root also will provide procurement
services for bulk materials.

     The construction project consists of a 270-million pounds-
per-year gas phase polypropylene plant using Sumitomo's
technology, a feedstock fractionation unit, and a flare system.
It also includes demolition and modifications to existing
facilities.  The mechanical completion of the project is
scheduled for the 1996 second quarter and the project will employ
about  800 people during the peak of construction.

     When combined with the existing polypropylene unit, the new
plant will increase total production to 750-million pounds
annually, making PSPC's Houston chemical complex the sixth
largest polypropylene producer in the United States.

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     Headquartered in Houston, PSPC is a partnership formed in
1992 between Phillips Petroleum Co. and Sumika Polymers America
Corp., a subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

     Halliburton Company is one of the world's largest
diversified energy services, engineering, maintenance, and
construction companies.  Founded in 1919, Halliburton provides a
broad range of energy services and products, industrial and
marine engineering and construction services, and property and
casualty insurance services.

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