Tag: Drilling
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Transportation Engineering Expert Witness’ Opinion on Routine Commerce Deemed Reliable
This lawsuit arises out of Port Arthur’s decision to designate Sassine Avenue as a “no truck route.” Kirk Thomas (“Thomas”) and KT Trucking and Cattle, LLC (“KT Trucking”) (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) engaged in various agricultural and commercial activities on Thomas’ property, including a land farming operation and the management of his personal trucking business. As a…
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Petroleum Engineering Expert Witness’ Testimony About the Alleged Production Declines Excluded
Plaintiff Craig Yoho filed a lawsuit on behalf of himself and a putative class of mineral interest owners alleging damages from subsurface interactions between ten pairs of horizontally drilled and hydraulically fractured “parent” and “child” wells. Specifically, he alleged that the drilling and completion of a child well caused the parent well to produce less…