As a professional courtesy, no names of plaintiff and defendant companies have been provided in order to protect the identity of our clients; however, a description, as well as additional detail, is offered as an insight to our complicated industry.

Malone Petroleum Consulting (MPC) has been selected for their extensive experience in and commitment to providing effective expert witness and major litigation support services. MPC has been involved in numerous legal cases providing expert services for primarily numerous oil and gas companies. MPC can help by providing quality advice and assistance, with complete confidentiality. MPC offers major litigation services to include: developing case strategies, forensic accounting, fraud examination, dispute services, fact finding and analysis, discovery, trial preparation, assistance in preparation for and examination of witnesses at depositions and in court; expert testimony settlement, expert witness testimony for effective mediation, negotiation, arbitration or conquest in the courtroom.

Our special expertise allows the lawyers to spend more effective time in fully understanding and presenting the issues. We encourage complete and practical preparation necessary for effective discovery and presentations.

With our extremely high success, we continue to expand our areas of legal support as the petroleum industry changes. In this way, we are better able to service our clients. MPC's forensic accounting services can provide invaluable assistance in determining the cause and extent of fraud, fraud detection and prevention, investigation and resolution of fraud allegations, evidence gathering and compilation, expert reports/analysis, and expert testimony. Often, litigation and other types of business negotiations involve complex matters that require specialized joint interest knowledge as related to the meaning, intent and propriety of AFE's, letter agreements, Joint Operating Agreements, COPAS Accounting Procedures, related contracts and only a partial list of related documents and items below:

Abandonment, acid jobs, advances, affiliates, allocating methods, audits, bankruptcy, bits, blowouts, boats, carried working interests, casing, casing head gas, CEPS, communications, completion, computers, condensate, conflict of interest, construction, consultants, contract violations, crude oil, daily drilling reports, delay rentals, delivery tickets, discounts, disposition, drilling, ending inventories, environmental, equipment, excessive costs, exploration, facilities, farm-outs and farm-ins, frac jobs, fraud, fuel, gas, gas balancing, goods and services charged and not delivered, government reports, helicopters, industry practice, insurance claims, invoices, joint interest billings, journal entries, kickbacks, labor, legal, location, LOE, materials, material transfers, mud, non-consent, offshore, oil, onshore, overcharges, overhead, payouts, pipeline, plant products, plugging, pricing, production, refinery, removal of operator, revenue, royalties, subsidiaries, supervision, tenants in common, tour reports, transportation, tubing, twenty-four month limitation, unleased owners in Louisiana, working interests, and workovers.

2. 1985 Audit
Assist Taking Deposition
High JIB expenses, low revenue

3. 1986 Audit
Settled successfully
Lawsuit after audit performed

4. 1986 Audit
Deposed
24 month limit attempt on revenue

5. 1988 Investigation
Sensitive audit
O&G operator for estate

6. 1989 Audit - complicated
Worked with Scott, Douglass & Luton
Electrification without AFE; settled

7. 1990 Audit - complicated
Expert witness, deposed, arbitration, court
Hostile operator environment

8. 1990 Audit - complicated
Tubular buyback arrangement
High casing costs for Operator's deal w/vendor

9. 1990 Consultant
Alleged blowout from wellhead

10. 1991 Investigation
Investor unhappy with operator's accounting

11. 1992 Arbitration
Expert witness (w/training); arbitration
Operator used own subsidiaries

12. 1992 Consultant
WI lost based on 24 month limit
Operator used own subsidiaries

13. 1992 Audit
Offset claims; settled successfully

14. 1992 Audit
Casing collapsed; well damaged
Audit in Vancouver, Canada

15. 1993 Audit
Attorney representing British investor

16. 1993 Simplify case
Expert witness, deposed, settled
Non-consent, but no expenditures

17. 1994 Audit - complicated
Unleased owner in Texas (tenants in common)
Payout review; excessive gas line loss

18. 1994 Forensic accounting
Vendor overcharges
Goods charged, but not delivered

19. 1994 Investigation
Building contractor overcharges
Contractor used own subsidiaries

20. 1994 Insurance evaluation
Expert witness, deposed; settled
Geo suffered water damage

21. 1995 Audit - complicated
WI practice of suing operators
Based on system can not be audited.

22. 1995 Audit
Investor offered small money for well interest

23. 1995 Forensic accounting
Worked with Fulbright & Jaworski
Operator not paying; vendor suing

24. 1995 Consultant
State of LA claim on Texaco condensate
State dropped claim

25. 1997 Forensic accounting
Brother suspected Executrix
Very complicated wills w/many assets

26. 1997 Forensic accounting
Expert witness, deposed, mediation
Similar to #172 with different working interests

27. 1997 Consultant
Unleased owners in Louisiana
Law: "detailed, itemized drilling costs"

28. 1998 Consultant
Worked with Burr & Foreman
Taurus leased coal bed gas rights from US Steel

29. 1998 Consultant
Payout costs appeared to be manipulated
Result was money in operator's pocket.

30. 1998 Audit - complicated
Different interpretation of lease terms
WI ownership converted at payout.

31. 1998 Consultant
Drilling costs excessive; contract violations
Operator knowingly did many contract violations

32. 1999 Consultant
JOA contract violations used to not share profits
Statute of limitations encourages operator theft

33. 1999 Forensic accounting
Merrill Lynch contract was without conscience
Statements could not be understood by CPA

34. 1999 Audit
Complicated loan made; bankruptcy followed
Resolved by attorneys

35. 1999 Consultant
Confidential - multi-million dollar exposure
Complicated

36. 2005 Audit
Operator refuses to pay WI for exceptions.
Operator counter sues to bypass 24 months' limit.

37. 2000 Audit
Client sued by WI for contract violations
Audited plaintiff who immediately settled

38. 2000 Audit payout
Working interests sold surface rights for building
Operator claimed minerals sold - became case law

39. 2004 Audit
Investor claims Operator cheated him.
Operator sues; ignoring that the investor is dieing.

40. 2001 Independent opinion
Operator conflict of interest with investor funds
Impossible return on investor's funds

41. 2002 Audit unauthorized charges
JOA not filed in Louisiana (tenants in common)
Operator making unauthorized charges to WI

42. 2001 Replaced Arthur Anderson
Operator circumvented Judge's order
Prior auditors failed to discover circumvention

43. 2001 Vendor audit
Vendor overcharges (Fulbright & Jaworski)
Vendor sued for payment of impossible charges

44. 2001 Vendor audit
Vendor overcharges (Fulbright & Jaworski)
Vendor sued for payment of inflated charges

45. 2002 Audit
Client sued Operator for an accounting
Settled favorably

46. 2002 Audit
Non-consent dispute
Non-operator non-consent on problem well.

47. 2004 Audit
JOA expenditure limitation
Operator invoices exceeded contractual limit.

48. 2003 Fraud
Investor comes in house on the pretense to help
Investor creates Operator bankruptcy for takeover

49. 2004 Attorney client request
Royalties owners were underpaid by Operator
Audited royalties and obtained recoveries for attorney.

50. 2004 Audit
Imprudent Actions of Operator
Operator ignored WI and made poor, failure choices

51. 2005 Due diligence
Operator changed verbal agreement in contractual
Operator bought by WI; 2nd WI continued to pursue.

52. 2005 Audit & Insurance
Disagreement on Operatorship
Review of charges and insurance claims

53. 2005 Consultant
JOA billing dispute
Poss. case law where JOA must be filed @ court house

54. 2005 Deposition
Deposition given for Fulbright & Jaworski
Client indemnified operator/seller to remove them.

55. 2005 Negotiation
Operator demand for Non-Operator payment
Negotiated a great settlement.

56. 2006 Payouts
Operator snubbed WI who sued for cooperation.
Operator accounting system slanted against WI's

57. 2006 Geological
Geologist signed contract, but operator didn't.
Operator tried to keep geologist info without payment.

58. 2006 Testifying expert
Operator was able to stall lawsuit about 10 years.
Case settled favorably.

59. 2006 Testifying expert
Secret production handling agreement
Operator refused to pay Non-Operators rightful share.

60. 2006 Vendor v. operator
Operator wanted payment from vendor for loss.
Operator overstated claim; audited & greatly reduced

61. 2007 Vendor v. operator
Operator wanted payment from vendor for loss.
Operator overstated claim; audited & greatly reduced

62. 2007 Vendor v. operator
Operator wanted payment from vendor for loss.
Operator overstated claim; audited & greatly reduced

63. 2007 Vendor v. operator
Operator is new & is charging much more.
Meeting with attorneys & WI owners to address issues.

64. 2007 Audit
Operator intentionally allowed good well to expire.
Operator stole well from investors.

65. 2007 Audit
Audit for intented lawsuit.
Operator unethical non-payment to vendors.

66. 2007 Expert witness
Expenses exceeding the revenue
Attempt to have same issue tried in court twice

67. 2007 Audit
Audit documents
The case has settled.

68. 2007 Audit
Audit documents
Non-Operator stopped paying JIB's

69. 2007 Audit
Audit documents
Lawsuit in progress.

70. 2008 non-consent issues
Disputed charges
The case has settled.

71. 2008 Operator
Attorney researching operator fraud on investors
Attorney backed down.

72. 2008 Expert witness
Review documents
Non-Operator not paying bills

73. 2008 Audit
1st Chinese drilling rig to US failed.
negotiations for a potential resolution

74. 2008 Review documents
Operator failure to develop lease
Leaseholder wants lease cancelled

75. 2008 Revenue payments
Worked with Operator to resolve issue
overpayment of royalty had to be recouped

76. 2008 Audit
Audit documents
Non-Operator stopped paying JIB's

77. 2008 Advice to lease owner
Met with client & made recommendations
Lawsuit against operator dropped.

78. 2009 Audit
Operator overcharges
Operator gave substantial credits.

79. 2009 Audit
WI did bankruptcy; operator wants paid
Audited charges

80. 2009 Audit
Operator cheated investors
Operator assigned himself a secret ORRI