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Offshore Royalty Owners Win Reprieve

By Barry Barnett on March 12, 2013
Posted in Energy

Oil and gas cases seem to supply more than their share of fights about the meaning of contract terms. Why? We suspect it has something to do with money.

Take Total E&P USA, Inc. v. Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp., No. 11-30038 (5th Cir. Mar. 12, 2013). In that case, two of three lessees…

Dual Drawworks Patent Nets Transocean a Federal Circuit Win

By Barry Barnett on November 19, 2012
Posted in Energy, Intellectual Property

Fix in your mind an image — of an offshore drilling rig. One that looks like a big boat. You see the derrick. It sits atop and in the middle of the boat. And then you notice something odd. The derrick has two tops, from each of which a string of metal depends. What gives?…

Farmout Agreement Didn’t Cover Platform Retirement Costs, Fifth Circuit Holds

By Barry Barnett on November 22, 2010
Posted in Energy

May a working interest owner in an offshore oil and gas lease avoid paying a share of the cost of decommissioning a platform that the lessee used to produce from the lease?  If you had a Farmout Agreement like the one between predecessors in interest — the PIIs — of Apache Corporation and W&T Offshore…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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