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.