instructmba, you say/ask, "It seems to me that PXD has still yet to turnover the "Discovery". Don't we want the information on how they made any and all interpretations? Wouldn't this include that 3D stuff mentioned in court by the Defendant?"
According to pxd's 4/8 filing, p. 3, they say, "Plaintiffs presumably have already hired new expert(s) who have already started reviewing the reams of interpreted seismic data....". You can bet that mosh's new "expert(s)" are the best and most reputable geophysicists in the business. It's important that pxd's expert was not a geophysicist, but rather a Petroleum Engineer (PE), who had no offshore experience in his resume. Geophysicists are trained in seismic and are the final word in all aspects of well assessment, so they can't be fooled, and they know exactly what information they need to complete their assignment.
After the surprise at the May, 2007 hearings, where our plaintiff's attorneys realized that pxd had withheld seismic data requested in their May, 2005 Rule 11 agreement, it's show & tell time, and the jig is up for the defendants. pxd knows that they will no longer be able to claim that Midway is a sub-economic well, AND, jpm's reason for not suing pxd to defend our Trust (the illegal farmout was better for the Trust beneficiary) will be shot.