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UNION TEXAS PETROLEUM CORP. v. PLT ENGINEERING, INC.

Nos. 88-4823, 89-4118.

895 F.2d 1043 (1990)

UNION TEXAS PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. PLT ENGINEERING, INC., Defendants, State Service Company, Inc., Defendant-Counter-Plaintiff, POWER WELL SERVICE, INC. and Gulf Island-IV, a Louisiana Partnership, Intervenors-Appellees, v. UNION TEXAS PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Agip Petroleum Company and Minatome Corporation, Counter-Defendants-Appellants. UNION TEXAS PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. PLT ENGINEERING, INC., et al., Defendants, Brown and Root USA, Inc. and Sub Sea International, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, and State Service Company, Inc., Defendant-Counter-Plaintiff-Appellee, Union Texas Petroleum Corporation, Agip Petroleum Company and Minatome Corporation, Counter-Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 7, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick W. Gray, Charles B. Griffis and George Arceneaux, III, Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, La., for counter-defendants-appellants.

Robert J. Burvant and John T. Nesser, III, Nesser, King & LeBlanc, New Orleans, La., for intervenors-appellees.

Mitchell J. Hoffman, Lowe, Stein, Hoffman & Allweiss, New Orleans, La., for State Service Co.

Robert W. Daigle, Onebane, Donohoe, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, Lafayette, La., for Sub Sea Intern.

Stewart F. Peck, Nathan P. Horner, Lugenhuhl, Burke, Wheaton, Peck & Rankin, New Orleans, La., for Brown & Root USA, Inc.

Before BROWN, REAVLEY, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal from the entry of summary judgments, we hold that the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), 43 U.S.C. §§ 1331-56 (1986 and Supp. III 1989), requires the application of Louisiana state law to non-maritime contract disputes arising from the construction of a gathering line on the seabed of the outer Continental Shelf (OCS). We further hold that the subcontractors were entitled to assert liens against the project...

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