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EMERALD OIL AND GAS v. EXXON CORP.

No. 13-99-757-CV.

228 S.W.3d 166 (2005)

EMERALD OIL AND GAS, L.C. On Behalf of its Working Interest Owner SAGLIO PARTNERSHIP LTD., Appellants, v. EXXON CORPORATION and Exxon Texas, Inc., As Successor in Interest to Humble Oil and Refining Co., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi-Edinburg.

January 27, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alice Oliver-Parrott, Burrow & Parrott, LLP, Candace Beth Kaiser Eindorf, Fibich, Hampton & Garth, and William Hardy Young, Gallagher, Young, Lewis Hampton & Downey, Houston, for Appellants.

Byron C. Keeling, Holman & Keeling, Houston, Patton G. Lochridge, W. Timothy George and Karen L. Watkins, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Austin, Jack O'Neill, Clements, O'Neill, Pierce & Nickens, S. Jack Balagia, Houston, and Shannon H. Ratliff, Ratliff Law Firm, Austin, for Appellees.

Before Chief Justice VALDEZ and Justices HINOJOSA and CASTILLO.

OPINION

Opinion by Chief Justice VALDEZ.

Emerald Oil & Gas, L.C. ("Emerald") sued Exxon Corp. and Exxon Texas, Inc., as successor in interest to Humble Oil & Refining Co. ("Exxon"), for wrongful conduct in plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells in the Mary Ellen O'Connor Field near Refugio, Texas. Emerald, who held mineral leases on the wells following Exxon, alleged that Exxon intentionally sabotaged the wells and misrepresented the status of...

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