Shell Offshore, Inc., Cross-Appellant v. Kirby Exploration Co. Of Texas, Cross-Appellees

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This case involves the applicability of the Louisiana law of predial servitudes to a fixed drilling platform on the outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the Gulf of Mexico and the Louisiana law of obligations to the contract between the parties to this action. We agree with the district court that in this case the Louisiana law of predial servi- tudes is inapplicable — although we reach our result by a different rationale from that used by the district court. We remand the case for the district court to reconsider its construction of the contract between the parties,…