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CHEVRON USA, INC. v. AKER MARITIME, INC.

No. 07-31117.

604 F.3d 888 (2010)

CHEVRON USA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. AKER MARITIME, INC.; Technip Offshore Engineering, Inc.; Technip Offshore Moorings, Inc.; Technip Offshore, Inc., Defendants-Appellants, T-3 Custom Coating Applicators, Inc., formerly known as LSS-Lone Star-Houston, Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. Tech OFCO; Oceaneering International, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 27, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence E. Best, Mark Edward Best (argued), Peter S. Koeppel, Best Koeppel Traylor, Susan R. Laporte, Curry & Friend, P.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Aker Maritime, Inc., Technip Offshore Engineering, Inc., Technip Offshore Moorings, Inc. and Technip Offshore, Inc.

Michael Anthony McGlone (argued), Michael John O'Brien, Jr., Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Oceaneering Intern., Inc.

Miles Paul Clements (argued), Paul C. Thibodeaux, Frilot, L.L.C., Louis Matthew Grossman, Michael Raudon Phillips, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Chevron USA, Inc.

Andrew A. Braun, Daniel G. Rauh (argued), Gieger, Laborde & Laperouse, L.L.C., Heather M. Valliant, New Orleans, LA, for T-3 Custom Coating Applicators, Inc.

Before JOLLY, BARKSDALE and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

The Genesis Spar, an oil production facility, sits 150 miles south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. A riser system attaches the floating spar to the ocean floor, 2,600 feet below. The hub of this appeal, indeed of this entire multiparty dispute, is the failed bolts used to secure the riser system. Chevron USA, Inc. ("Chevron"), the part-owner and operator of the Genesis Spar, sued several parties to recover its costs resulting from...

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