CORPUS CHRISTI OIL & GAS v. ZAPATA GULF MARINE

No. 94-60537.

71 F.3d 198 (1995)

CORPUS CHRISTI OIL & GAS COMPANY and Corpus Christi Hydrocarbons Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ZAPATA GULF MARINE CORPORATION, et al., Defendants. GULF FLEET SUPPLY VESSELS INC., et al., Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Counter Defendants-Appellants, v. HOUSTON PIPE LINE CO., Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 27, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Brown, Frederick B. Goldsmith, Bell & Murphy, Houston, TX, for Appellants.

Britt K. Davis, E. Lee Haag, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, for Corpus Christi Oil & Gas and Corpus Christi Hydrocarbons.

Christopher W. Barnes, Cary V. Sorensen, Houston, TX, for Houston Pipeline Co.

Before JOLLY and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and FITZWATER, District Judge.


E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

In early November of 1989, the offshore towboat GULF STAR, operated by Zapata Gulf Marine Operators and crewed by Zapata Gulf Marine Services Corp., was tied to a docking platform in the Gulf of Mexico, waiting for a storm from the north to pass. As the GULF STAR prepared to maneuver, its mooring lines parted, and it and the construction barge to which it was connected began drifting south with the wind and waves toward a gas and condensate...

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