Tesoro Petroleum Corp. v. Nabors Drilling USA, Inc.

OPINION

DAVIE L. WILSON, Justice (Assigned).

Tesoro Petroleum Corporation and Te-soro E & P Company, L.P. (collectively “Tesoro”) appeal a summary judgment requiring it to indemnify Nabors Drilling USA, Inc. (Nabors) for settlement monies Nabors paid a third party as a result of an oil well blowout. In five points of error, Tesoro contends the trial court erred in granting summary judgment on Nabors’s indemnity claim because (1) Nabors’s damages arose from a claim by LMP Petroleum Corporation (LMP) for gross negligence and willful misconduct, which were specifically excluded from the indemnity…