In re Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Class Action Litigation

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KEITH P. ELLISON, District Judge.

This case arises out of the April 20, 2010 Maeondo well blowout and the resulting explosion on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon which killed 11 people; injured dozens of others; and set off a chain of events culminating in 87 days of crude oil spilling directly into deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Maeondo well was a joint venture among BP Exploration & Production Inc. (together with its affiliates, “BP”), Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (“Anadarko” or the “Company”), and MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC. In the months following the disaster, lawsuits…