Phillips Petroleum Co. v. OKC Ltd. Partnership

WILLIAMS, Judge.

Plaintiff, Phillips Petroleum Company, filed suit in Plaquemines Parish, the coastal parish nearest the offshore area in the Gulf of Mexico subject to the oil and gas sublease which it seeks to cancel and remove from the conveyance records of Plaquemines Parish. Through this appeal, defendant OKC Limited Partnership1 contends that the trial court erred in overruling its declinatory exception raising the objection of improper venue because the immovable property subject to the sublease is in federal waters, beyond the coastal boundaries of the State of Louisiana. As we agree…