Oil services company Halliburton said it was making staff reductions at its Houston headquarters in an effort to adjust to rough market conditions. International energy companies during the fourth quarter started announcing cuts in capital expenditures as oil prices continued to shed value. More recently, secondary industries have started to show signs of a slowdown. Halliburton spokeswoman Emily Mir told Fuel Fix, the energy blog for the Houston Chronicle, the company was monitoring capital flow and cutting jobs in an effort to cope. “While these reductions are difficult, we believe they are necessary to work through this challenging market,” she said in remarks published Tuesday. Layoffs from the Houston office follow a December announcement from the company it was cutting about 1,000 jobs from its operations in the […]