SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549



                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT

                     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

                DATE OF REPORT (date of earliest event reported)

                                  JULY 25, 1997

                               Halliburton Company
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

State or other                      Commission                IRS Employer
jurisdiction                        File Number               Identification
of incorporation                                              Number

Delaware                              1-3492                  No. 75-2677995

                               3600 Lincoln Plaza
                             500 North Akard Street
                            Dallas, Texas 75201-3391
                    (Address of principal executive offices)

                         Registrant's telephone number,
                       including area code - 214/978-2600






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         INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN REPORT

Item 5.  Other Events

     The registrant may, at its option,  report under this item any events, with
respect to which  information is not otherwise called for by this form, that the
registrant deems of importance to security holders.
  
     On July 25, 1997 registrant  issued a press release entitled Brown & Root -
Murphy Awarded Pipeline Construction Contracts in Bolivia and Brazil pertaining,
among other things,  to an  announcement  that Brown & Root-Murphy  LLC, a joint
venture equally owned by registrant's Brown & Root Energy Services business unit
and Murphy  Bros.  Inc.'s  Murphy  Bros.  International,  has been  awarded  two
pipeline construction contracts in consortium with local partners as part of the
Bolivia-Brazil  Gas Pipeline Project.  The two contracts for Petrobas,  Brazil's
state-owned  oil and gas  company,  are  valued  at about $90  million  and $110
million apiece.

Item 7.  Financial Statements and Exhibits

     List below the financial  statements,  pro forma financial  information and
exhibits, if any, filed as part of this report.

         (c)      Exhibits.

                  Exhibit 20 - Press release dated July 25, 1997.















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                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                                HALLIBURTON COMPANY




Date:    July 25, 1997                      By: /s/ Susan S. Keith
                                                -----------------------
                                                Susan S. Keith
                                                Vice President, Secretary and
                                                Corporate Counsel


























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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX



Exhibit                                                      Sequentially
Number                     Description                       Numbered Page

20                         Press Release of                  5 of 6
                           July 25, 1997
                           Incorporated by Reference

































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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     Contact-Guy Marcus      Barbara Johnson
July 25, 1997             VP-Inv. Rel.            Media Rel.
                          214/978-2691            713/676-8097

BROWN & ROOT-MURPHY AWARDED PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION
CONTRACTS IN BOLIVIA AND BRAZIL

DALLAS,  Texas -- Brown &  Root-Murphy  LLC, a joint  venture  equally  owned by
Halliburton  Company's (NYSE:HAL) Brown & Root Energy Services business unit and
Murphy Bros.  Inc.'s Murphy Bros.  International,  has been awarded two pipeline
construction  contracts  in  consortium  with  local  partners  as  part  of the
Bolivia-Brazil Gas Pipeline Project.  The two contracts for Petrobras,  Brazil's
state-owned  oil and gas  company,  are  valued  at about $90  million  and $110
million apiece.

     The contract for Bolivia  consists of the  construction  of 557  kilometers
(km) of 32-inch diameter pipeline from Rio Grande, Bolivia to the Bolivia-Brazil
border, near Puerto Aguirre,  Bolivia. The consortium BRM-CPB, a venture between
Brown & Root-  Murphy  (70%) and  Consorcio  Petrolero  Boliviano  of Santa Cruz
Bolivia (30%), is scheduled to complete the project by December 1998.

     The  contract  for Brazil  consists  of the  engineering,  design,  project
management, procurement and construction of 522 km of 32- inch diameter pipeline
from the  Bolivia-Brazil  border near  Corumba,  to a point  southeast  of Campo
Grande, Brazil. The consortium Camargo Correa-Brown & Root-Murphy, equally owned
by Brown & Root-Murphy and Camargo Correa of Sao Paulo,  Brazil, is scheduled to
complete the project by January 1999.

     "We are extremely  pleased to be involved in  constructing  1,079 km out of
the total 1,815 km of Phase I for  Bolivia-Brazil  Pipeline  Project," said Dave
Lesar,   president  and  chief   operation   officer  of  Halliburton   Company.
"Acquisition  of these  contracts  establishes  Brown &  Root-Murphy  as a major
player in the international pipeline construction arena."

     In early 1996,  Brown & Root Energy  Services  combined  its  international
project  management  and  engineering  skills  with  Murphy's  onshore  pipeline
construction  expertise  to  seek  international  projects  as a  joint  venture
activity.

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     Murphy   International,   Inc.,   is  an  affiliate  of  the  East  Moline,
Illinois-based  Murphy  Bros.,  Inc.,  one of North  America's  largest  onshore
pipeline  contractors  and owners of a large fleet of specialized  land pipeline
equipment.

     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.

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