Category: Petroleum Engineering Expert Witness
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Petroleum Engineering Expert Witness’ Testimony About the Decline Trend in Production Admitted
Southern Oil of Louisiana, LLC filed a complaint seeking to recover damages from, among others, Alliance Offshore and the M/V MR CADE after the M/V MR CADE allided with Southern Oil’s fixed, charted offshore oil platform located in Main Pass Block 45 (the “Corvus platform”) on December 2, 2021. The allision resulted in the Corvus platform…
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Petroleum Engineering Expert Witness’ Testimony Admitted Because his Supplemental Report Does Not Rely on New Information
Plaintiff sued Berry Petroleum Company for injuries incurred while pumping oil for transport as a crude oil truck driver for Savage Industries Inc. In both the initial disclosure and the supplemental disclosure at issue here, Plaintiff designated Edward R. Ziegler as an “oil field, oil tank and oil tank’s ‘thief hatch’ safety expert as to…