Denbury Onshore, LLC v. Texcal Energy South Texas, L.P.

Opinion

Marc W. Brown, Justice

Denbury Onshore, LLC, challenges the district court’s judgment confirming an arbitration award in favor of TexCal Energy South Texas, L.P., and Venoco, Inc. (collectively, Venoco), and denying Denbury’s motion to vácate or modify the award. Finding no error, we affirm.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

Denbury’s business focuses on enhanced oil recovery using C02 injection. Denbury owns C02 deposits near Jackson, Mississippi, in fields known as Jackson Dome. TexCal, whose parent company is Venoco, owned a majority interest in certain producing mature oil and gas…