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

By Barry Barnett on November 22, 2010

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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