Anadarko halts oil well-completion activity after worker’s death

MEAD – Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) has suspended oil and natural-gas well-completion activities indefinitely in Northern Colorado following the death of a contractor and injuries to two other workers at a well site in Weld County

A Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) worker died Thursday and two other employees, Thomas Sedlmayr, 48, and Grant Casey, 28, were injured in the accident. Sedlmayr was taken in a helicopter to Denver Health while Casey was driven in an ambulance to Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland.

Both workers had serious, though non-life threatening injuries, said Sgt. Sean Standridge of the Weld County Sheriff’s…