Nexen Inc. v. Gulf Interstate Engineering Co.

OPINION

TIM TAFT, Justice.

Appellants, Nexen Inc., Nexen Petroleum Operations Yemen Limited, and Canadian Nexen Petroleum Yemen (collectively, “the Nexen parties”), appeal from a take-nothing summary judgment rendered on their claims against appellee, Gulf Interstate Engineering Co. (“GIE”), for engineering work that GIE had done in Yemen on a pipeline for the Nexen parties’ corporate predecessor. We determine whether (1) the statute of repose of Texas or Alberta, Canada applied and (2) GIE conclusively proved its affirmative defense that the applicable statute of repose barred the Nexen…