Illustrative Litigation Cases
Illustrative Litigation Cases include:
- Causation arising from unsafe storage practices for asphalt, associated with an explosion of an asphalt tank at a Colorado refinery tank storage facility.
- Cause, responsibility, and economic consequence of an explosion and fire in slop oil storage tanks in a refinery in Wyoming.
- Cause and responsibility for an explosion and fire of a hydrocracking process plant in a petroleum refinery in Texas.
- Cause and responsibility for an explosion and fire in a hydrocracking process plant in a petroleum refinery in New Jersey.
- Operating, design and inspection practices leading to an explosion and fire in a hydrocracking plant in a petroleum refinery in California.
- Operating, design, maintenance and inspection practices leading to an explosion and fire in a petroleum refinery in Texas.
- Operating, design, maintenance and inspection practices leading to an explosion and fire in a natural gas plant in Utah.
- Cause of an explosion and fire in operating an ethylene manufacturing plant.
- Cause and responsibility for an explosion in a electrical control building at a Wyoming refinery.
- Cause and responsibility for an explosion in an incinerator at a natural gas processing facility in West Virginia.
- Evaluation of economics and safety of transport and storage of petroleum products, and the operability and economics of a new ethanol production technology, for a U.S. pipeline company.
- Evaluations of design, environmental compliance, and economic value of petroleum bulk storage, marine storage, and pipeline/bulk transportation facilities, for a petroleum refinery in California.
- For the Australian Queen's Royal Commission on Petroleum, evaluation of supply, demand, economics, and distribution of petroleum products, and forecasts of future petroleum products outlook.
- For the government of New Zealand, evaluation of the economics, safety, operability, and environmental controls of a new technology for converting methanol into gasoline.
- For the national petroleum company of Venezuela, evaluation of the economics, safety, operability, and environmental controls of a new technology for converting heavy crude oil into products.
- For a Middle East client, an assessment of the financial performance of a petroleum coking installation, including economic valuations of intermediate petroleum products from the plant.
- For the U.S. EPA, evaluation of the economic consequence to the petroleum industry of regulations for unleaded gasoline, low sulfur gasoline, and low sulfur diesel fuel.
- Assessment of the economic value of various refineries associated with due diligence, sale negotiations, and processing agreements.
- Technical expert litigation services in an explosion and fire resulting during filling of a container with kerosene at an automotive service station, including causation, operating practices and fuel properties.
- Technical expert litigation services associated with an explosion in a chemical manufacturing plant in Michigan, including causation, responsibility, and chemical processing issues.
- Technical expert litigation services associated with an explosion in a chemical manufacturing plant in Texas.
- Assessment of causation and responsibilities associated with property damage and business interruption claims arising from construction and operation of a chemical plant in Europe.
- Technical expert litigation services regarding proper handling, transport, storage, and disposal of chemical naphthalene, in accordance with industry standards established to be in existence at the time of a major naphthalene fire.
- Assessment of pipeline transport specifications and practices related to an explosion and fire of the transported product.
- Assessment of causation and responsibilities associated with business interruption claims arising from gas pipeline contamination and petroleum products property measurements of the product from an isomerization chemical plant.
- Technical expert litigation services relating to a Superfund site contamination arising from crude oil pipeline transport, slop oil, tank bottoms, waste lube oils and other materials. Services included chemical source characterization, illustrative toxic chemicals composition, industry practices, and discovery assistance.
- Technical expert litigation services relating to a Superfund site contamination arising from railroad maintenance and fueling operations. Services included chemical source characterization, hazardous materials analysis, and industry practices.
- Technical expert litigation services relating to a Superfund site contamination arising from two valve manufacturing companies. Services included chemical source characterization, hazardous materials analysis, and industry practices.
- Technical expert litigation services relating to Superfund environmental site contamination, including chemical source characterization, the owner's prior knowledge of conditions leading to contamination, and technology alternatives thereto, from the historical operation of a major petrochemical facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
- Expert litigation evaluations relating to environmental site contamination, including manufacturing sources of pollution, the owner's prior knowledge of conditions leading to contamination, and technology alternatives thereto, from the historical operation of a chemical plant in New England.
- Assessment of Design and Basic Engineering of Dichlorobenzene Crystallizer Plant, proper industry practices, and plant operations, associated with major corrosive failure of the facility.
- Development and sale of new environmental control technologies to destroy chlorinated hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds, and other chemicals.
- Development and license of a new polymerization technology, which produces an active ingredient in anti-tartar toothpaste and mouthwash.
- Reverse engineering and development of a polymerization process for a pharmaceutical intermediate, to provide an alternative chemical raw material for a commercial client.
- Under contract to the U.S. Army, development of a new route to manufacturing a nitrated explosive, and collection of safety and environmental data relating to safe handling, storage, and transportation of an explosive product, including preparation of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and meeting all relevant Department of Transportation regulations.
- Assessment of safety and environmental risks from operations and storage of a hazardous chemical, for a Canadian oil refinery.