Supreme Court denies petition in Basic Energy Services v. PPC Energy

Today the Texas Supreme Court denied PPC’s petition for review in  PPC Energy v. Basic Energy Services, No. 25-0061. I wrote about the opinion of the El Paso Court of Appeals, which reversed and remanded a trial court judgment of $13 million against Basic after jury trial . Basic operates disposal wells, and the jury found that its wells had damaged PPC Energy’s producing wells. The El Paso court held that the trial court had erroneously failed to submit a requested jury charge on the prudent operator standard and remanded for retrial.