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TOTAL E & P USA, INC. v. KERR-McGEE OIL AND GAS

No. 11-30038.

711 F.3d 478 (2013)

TOTAL E & P USA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee Statoil Gulf of Mexico, L.L.C., Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee v. KERR-McGEE OIL AND GAS CORP.; Lynn Belcher; C. Dan Bump; Cathy Zeornes Guy; Gary A. Hummel; Allen D. Keel; Kevin A. Small; Wayne G. Zeornes, Defendants-Appellants. Lynn S. Belcher; C. Dan Bump; Cathy Zeornes Guy; Gary A. Hummel; Allan D. Keel; Kevin A. Small; Wayne G. Zeornes, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Statoil Gulf of Mexico, L.L.C., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 12, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Allen O'Connor , Dana Erin Dupre , C. Peck Hayne, Jr. , Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Warren W. Harris , Bracewell & Giuliani, L.L.P., Dick Watt , Andre Charles deLaunay , Watt Beckworth Thompson & Henneman, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Andrew Tillman Lilly , John Y. Pearce , Montgomery Barnett, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael H. Rubin , David Roy Dugas , Kyle Achee Ferachi , McGlinchey Stafford, P.L.L.C., Baton Rouge, LA, Ernest L. Edwards, Jr. , Billy Richard Moore, Jr. , Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P., M. Taylor Darden , Matthew James Fantaci , Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier, Finn, Blossman, New Orleans, LA, Andrew McCollam, III , McCollam Law Firm, P.C., David Michael Gunn , Chad Flores , Erin Hilary Huber , Constance Hankins Pfeiffer , Beck, Redden & Secrest, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Patrick Stephen Ottinger , Ottinger Hebert, L.L.C., Lafayette, LA, for Thomas M. Campbell, Jr., et al., Amici Curiae.

Before GARZA, DENNIS, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.

DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a contractual interpretation dispute over whether overriding royalties are payable out of the initial oil and gas production from a tract of land on the outer continental shelf adjacent to Louisiana. In 1998, pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ("OCSLA"),1 the United States issued a mineral lease of the tract to oil companies for mineral exploration. In 1999 and 2001, overriding royalty...

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