Opinion
6:22-CV-00905-ADA 6:21-CV-00367-ADA 6:21- CV-00906-ADA
04-22-2024
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Halliburton U.S. Technologies, Inc., Halliburton Group Technologies, Inc., Halliburton Technology Partners, LLC Plaintiffs, v. U.S. Well Services, LLC, ProFrac Services, LLC, Defendants.
JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
ORDER ON NON-PARTIES DEFENDANT U.S. WELL SERVICES, LLC AND PROFRAC SERVICES, LLC DISCOVERY ISSUES
Before the Court is Defendants U.S. Well Services, LLC's and ProFrac Services, LLC's (“ProFrac” or “Defendants”) motion to compel Halliburton to produce documents related to Halliburton's fluid ends and Defendants' motion to prevent Halliburton from altering Halliburton's initially proposed inspection list. After conducting a hearing on the issues and after a review of the case file and applicable law, the Court rules as follows.
With respect to Defendants' motion to compel Halliburton to produce documents related to Halliburton's fluid ends, the motion is GRANTED-IN-PART and DENIED-IN-PART. Within one business day of the date of this Order, Halliburton is ORDERED to produce the material specifications for Halliburton's next generation of fluid ends. Defendants' motion to compel Halliburton to produce documents related to Halliburton's fluid ends is otherwise DENIED.
With respect to Defendants' motion to prevent Halliburton from altering Halliburton's initially proposed inspection list, the motion is GRANTED-IN-PART and DENIED-IN-PART. Halliburton's previous selection of the Marathon Oil Permian LLC site in West Texas known as the King George site shall count as one of the six non-electric fracturing sites available to Halliburton for an inspection. Halliburton may replace the XCL Asset site in Vernal, Utah with the Firebird Energy II site in Odessa. Otherwise, and to the extent possible, Halliburton is instructed to inspect sites previously identified in Halliburton's February 2024 identification of sites for inspection. If Halliburton identifies a site for inspection, and if the customer for the requested site has not previously been notified of the requested inspection, Defendants are ORDERED to transmit the request to the customer within two business days of receipt of the request from Halliburton and Defendants shall transmit such request to the customer by (a) serving the request on the customer's registered agent for service of process and (b) transmitting the request by e-mail to a known contact point, if any, within the legal department of the customer or through any known outside legal counsel for customer. Defendants shall provide proposed dates for inspections to Halliburton within two weeks of notice to the customer, and inspections shall be scheduled to occur within four weeks of notice to the customer.
The Parties' respective positions are set out in Attachment A.
IT IS SO ORDERED.