Fibich Hampton & Oilfield Contamination Litigation
Holding Oil Companies Responsible
For the past decade, Fibich Hampton lawyers have taken on some of the biggest oil companies in the world. These companies operated wells, pipelines, storage facilities, separator facilities, and conducted oil and gas exploration and production activities on our client’s property. After draining the land of its precious minerals, these companies didn’t clean up their mess. They left equipment, storage tanks, pipelines and pits which caused dangerous toxic and hazardous chemicals to spill and leak into the soil and groundwater. Fibich Hampton was hired to sue these companies for money damages and clean up costs.
When oil companies don’t live up to their legal obligations, you need help from a law firm with experience in litigating multi-million dollar oilfield contamination cases. We have the resources, the experts and the qualifications to protect your rights against oil companies.
Protecting environmental rights
Protecting a landowner's property from environmental harm is important to Fibich Hampton. We want to work with you to ensure that your rights are protected and that you are properly compensated for all of the harm caused by oil and gas operations. It doesn’t matter if the dangerous activities took place in the 1960’s or the 1990’s, many state laws protect the landowner from the environmental harm caused by oil companies.
Call us today. We will evaluate your claim confidentially and at no cost to you. We have the resources and experience to determine whether your rights have been violated and the cost of the harm.
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Drilling operations can damage land
While exploring and drilling for oil and gas, huge heavy equipment is brought in to move the earth. In some cases, this messy process has damaged creeks and blocked drainage. The equipment used in this process can also damage adjacent fields and road connecting the property. If holding tanks leak rivers, lakes, creeks and ponds can be polluted. Land protection clauses may exist in oil and gas leases, and the details should include specific responsibility for oil and gas companies to clean up, preserve and conserve the land during use and at the end of the term. This includes removing any oil and gas drilling or production equipment. Some land owners have inadvertantly become dumping grounds for abandoned equipment.
Call Fibich Hampton Environmental Team
Reasonable measures must be used to protect your land. If oil and gas companies have failed to protect your land from harm -- violating land protection clauses in the lease -- please contact a Fibich Hampton oil and gas attorney to discuss the specifics of your case.
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Recent cases ~ Contamination Litigation
Louisiana Landowners received a settlement from oil companies who failed to clean up the property after oilfield operations ceased. The oilfield company did not follow policies and procedures for containment of oil and waste, nor did they remove equipment used during oil and gas operations on the land. In addition to the full restoration of the land by the oil companies, the landowners received a settlement.
In another case land was contaminated in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, by oilfield operations. The land will be remediated by oil company defendants. The landowners sued after determining the level of contamination left behind by the oil company. A settlement was received by the family who owed the land for generations. The issues were resolved pretrial and the oil company paid for the cost of the clean up.
These cases are for information only and are not indicative of any future outcome for any future cases.