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Energy – Hydrocarbons
Bad BOP Parts Make a Good Insurance Recovery
An oil and gas operator drilling a well in southeast Texas experienced a “kick” of flow coming back up the well to surface.
Appellate
Proof of Product Defect Required Even If Fire Destroys Evidence
A Texas pesticide manufacturing company burned after a gas-vapor explosion occurred in an industrial oven used to melt chemicals for retail products.
Commercial Disputes
Defense Found Not Guilty in Breach of Oral Partnership Agreement
A former investment banker accused our client of breaching an oral partnership agreement to identify and acquire oil and gas prospects and conspiring with a large private equity fund to misappropriate an opportunity to acquire an oil and gas company.
Appellate
Oil Company Receives Recovery When Pipeline Is Ruptured by Wayward Dredge
After a company hired to perform maintenance dredging of a ship channel in the Gulf ran its dredge over a subsea gas pipeline, causing an explosion and fire
Appellate
A Texas pesticide manufacturing company burned after a gas-vapor explosion occurred in an industrial oven used to melt chemicals for retail products.
After a company hired to perform maintenance dredging of a ship channel in the Gulf ran its dredge over a subsea gas pipeline, causing an explosion and fire
Commercial Disputes
A former investment banker accused our client of breaching an oral partnership agreement to identify and acquire oil and gas prospects and conspiring with a large private equity fund to misappropriate an opportunity to acquire an oil and gas company.
Initially represented by a different law firm, a world-scale petrochemical manufacturer and supplier filed a breach of contract claim against one of its customers, who was in the plastic fabrication business.
Energy – Hydrocarbons
An oil and gas operator drilling a well in southeast Texas experienced a “kick” of flow coming back up the well to surface.
A former investment banker accused our client of breaching an oral partnership agreement to identify and acquire oil and gas prospects and conspiring with a large private equity fund to misappropriate an opportunity to acquire an oil and gas company.
Insurance
After Hurricane Katrina downed five of its platforms and destroyed or damaged the associated wells and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico, a Houston-based independent energy company sought recoveries under several insurance policies.
Products Liability
An oil and gas operator drilling a well in southeast Texas experienced a “kick” of flow coming back up the well to surface.