April 14, 2022
A Saudi energy company says an arbitrator inappropriately gutted its bribery claims against a Houston company and instead validated its adversary's counterclaims with an $8.5 million award, and wants the Fifth Circuit to right that wrong.
November 10, 2021
A Texas federal judge has approved an $8.5 million judgment to Houston-based National Oilwell Varco Inc., and rejected a counter bid by a Saudi energy company that complained the arbitrator overseeing the matter had ignored important arguments in the decade-old bribery case.
June 07, 2021
Houston-based National Oilwell Varco Inc. told a Texas federal judge that bribery allegations by a Saudi energy company cannot shake a court-appointed arbitrator's $8.5 million judgment, arguing the findings "are not subject to judicial review."
May 03, 2021
A Saudi energy company urged a Texas federal court on Friday to ax an $8.5 million arbitration award to National Oilwell Varco Inc., arguing the arbitrator overseeing the dispute wrongfully denied it a fair opportunity to present its case.
August 10, 2016
A Texas judge on Tuesday stepped in to appoint an arbitrator to oversee a dispute between two National Oilwell Varco Inc. affiliates and a Saudi energy company, the latest chapter in a yearslong saga between the parties over an alleged contract bribery scheme.
July 14, 2016
A Texas oil company affiliate expressed concern Wednesday over the "irregular process" a Saudi energy company used to object to an arbitrator appointment in their dispute over an alleged contract bribery scheme, while the energy company countered before the Texas court that its objection was properly filed.
June 17, 2016
National Oilwell Varco Inc. affiliates cannot delay Houston arbitration over NOV's alleged Saudi contract bribery scheme until a related international arbitration wraps up, a Texas federal judge ruled Thursday in their arbitral venue dispute, ordering the sides to name potential adjudicators for the Houston matchup
June 02, 2016
A Texas oil company's affiliates said Thursday they are appealing a judge's denial of their request to halt federal court proceedings and an in-state arbitration while another arbitration proceeds at the International Chamber of Commerce in a Saudi engineering company's bribery and corruption case.
April 14, 2016
A Texas oil company's affiliates reiterated their request Friday to halt federal court proceedings, and a potentially new arbitration, in a Saudi engineering company's bribery and corruption case until a related $880 million arbitration wraps up in the International Chamber of Commerce.
April 01, 2016
Two affiliates of National Oilwell Varco Inc. asked a Texas federal judge on Thursday to delay a Saudi oil field engineering company's request to name an arbitrator to hear its corruption case, saying the court should pause proceedings until a related $881 million International Chamber of Commerce arbitration wraps up.