MATTER OF WHISTLER ENERGY II, L.L.C.

No. 18-30940.

931 F.3d 432 (2019)

In the MATTER OF: WHISTLER ENERGY II, L.L.C., Debtor, Nabors Offshore Corporation, Appellant, v. Whistler Energy II, L.L.C.; Apollo Franklin Partnership, L.P.; Apollo Centre Street Partnership, L.P.; Apollo Special Opportunities Managed Account, L.P.; Apollo Credit Opportunity Fund III AIV I LP; ANS Holdings We, Limited; Apollo Management, L.P.; Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Whistler Energy II, L.L.C., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed July 26, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth P. Green , James Blake Hamm , Snow Spence Green, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Scott Robert Cheatham , Adams & Reese, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Appellant.

Louis Middleton Phillips , Patrick Michael Shelby , Senior Counsel, Kelly, Hart & Pitre, L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Appellees Whistler Energy II, L.L.C., Apollo Franklin Partnership, L.P., Apollo Centre Street Partnership, L.P., Apollo Special Opportunities Managed Account, L.P., Apollo Credit Opportunity Fund III ATV I LP, ANS Holdings We, Limited, Apollo Management, L.P.

Stewart F. Peck , Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, LA, for Appellee Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Whistler Energy II, L.L.C.

Before OWEN, SOUTHWICK, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.


This appeal arises out of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding of Whistler Energy II, L.L.C. Whistler owns an oil and gas production platform in the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2014, it contracted with Nabors Offshore Corporation to provide a drilling rig and related equipment and services...

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