
                       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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