Houston’s Plains all American Pipeline company continues battling lawsuits in California following a 2015 pipeline spill near Santa Barbara.
This week, the company with offices in Oklahoma City and pipeline operations throughout Oklahoma told a California judge an oil field service firm and five oil workers were not entitled to economic loss damages as a result of the spill.
In a filing in California’s central U.S. District court, the firm said the company in question, TracTide Marine Corp. and the five workers were not employed by Plains or the firms that produced oil shipped along the pipeline.
Plains said all of the plaintiffs were “employed by contractors to the companies that operated the offshore platforms that produced the oil shipped through” two pipelines. It said TracTide Marine was a contractor to those companies.
The company is asking federal Judge Philip S.Gutierrez to dismiss the claims.