Yesterday I posted a video that includes a chart that maps out the BP money trail (hat tip to Hugh Kaufman).  Also in that post is a link to an article that delves into the financial  maze in more detail.

With those in mind, let’s continue to follow the money…. all the way to Afghanistan? This is from a report called Fluor Reports Record New Awards of $9.3 Billion, Boosting Backlog to $30.2 Billion (hat tip to Barkway):

Revenue for the Government segment was $777 million for the second quarter of 2010, up 62 percent from $479 million a year ago. Segment profit was $35 million, up from last year’s results which included $15 million from a favorable project settlement. Improved results in the quarter were primarily due to increased contributions from LOGCAP IV task orders in Afghanistan. Second quarter new awards totaled $638 million, including $542 million for LOGCAP IV task orders. Segment backlog at the end of the quarter was $635 million, which is down from $974 million a year ago due to project execution activities related to American Recovery and Reinvestment Act work at the Savannah River site.

Indeed, Fluor did receive $777 million in government contracts for the second quarter of 2010.

Who is this Fluor I speak of?  My own DeepwaterThroat, Barkway, introduced us to Fluor here.

Barkway also pointed me to a piece called Fluor subsidiary P2S selected to support BP’S Gulf Coast cleanup. If you follow the link above the image, you’ll see that I included some information about P2S there, too.

Barkway asks if we seeing the big picture, and notes that this is a similar kickback to what we saw in the video I linked to at the top of the post. Here’s Barkway from that earlier “follow the money” post:

And they have the BP contract for oil cleanup.…ergo BP is essentially paying an industry colleague the contract money (and I bet dimes to donuts BP gets some of that money BACK from Fluor in some sort of in-kind arrangement). The unemployed they hire from state unemployment agencies are just the pawns in this money shuffle, and hey make for good PR. [...]

This cleanup employment situation gets stinkier with every passing week. There are layers of players here and money exchanging hands we have yet to discover and that I’m sure the public is never meant to know about.

For all of the very revealing news Barkway has shared with us, please go here.