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APACHE CORP. v. W & T OFFSHORE, INC.

No. 09-31122.

626 F.3d 789 (2010)

APACHE CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. W & T OFFSHORE, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 16, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Allen O'Connor , Dana Erin Dupre , Gordon, Arata , McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, Roger Dale Townsend (argued), Jennifer R. Tillison , Alexander Dubose & Townsend, LLP, Christopher William Barnes, Apache Corp., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Philip Guy Eisenberg , Bankruptcy Counsel (argued), Locke, Lord, Bissell & Liddell, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Jason Marechal Cerise , Omer Frederick Kuebel, III , Locke, Lord, Bissell & Liddell, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before STEWART, PRADO and ELROD, Circuit Judges.

JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge:

Although the parties submitted over one-hundred pages of briefing, the issue on appeal is the same straightforward question of contract interpretation previously before the district court: Does the Farmout Agreement1 require W & T to bear a proportionate share of the costs of decommissioning an oil platform located on the federal offshore oil and gas lease...

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