LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Halliburton Co.'s HAL, -1.65% Halliburton Energy Services Inc. division has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of Justice said Thursday. The Justice Department said computer simulations from Halliburton's internal investigation of the blowout at BP's BP, -2.00% Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico were destroyed. As part of the plea deal Halliburton has agreed, subject to court approval, to pay a maximum-available statutory fine, to be subject to three years of probation and to continue to cooperate in the government's ongoing criminal investigation. Separately, Halliburton made a voluntary contribution of $55 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.