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Louisiana Operator’s Bad Faith Does Not Preclude Recovery

A post on Gray Reed’s Energy & the Law blog discusses the question: Under Louisiana law, does the operator’s bad faith preclude recovery for the non-operator’s breach of a joint operating agreement if the operator caused the non-operator to breach the JOA but did not itself breach?

Charles Sartain summarizes the background of Apache Deepwater, LLC v. W&T Offshore, Inc., a conflict between parties to a joint operating agreement for operations on offshore deepwater wells.

The case was complicated by conflicting provisions in the JOA.

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