Legal Opinion
Placid Oil Company v. SS WILLOWPOOL
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided February 20, 1963No. 704PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FISHER, District Judge.
This case concerns a collision between a moving vessel and a stationary unmanned gas well platform situated in navigable waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the Outer Continental Shelf, July 13, 1960.
Libellants were the owners of the fixed, off-shore, unmanned platform or structure made of steel and set into the bed of the Gulf of Mexico in approximately 100 feet of water, with its upper structure extending 50 feet above the surface of the Gulf waters. It was physically located on Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease No. 0437, Eugene Island Area, Gulf of Mexico, at…
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