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Well Explosion Yields 14.9 Million Dollar Award

John Stapleton, 19, died in 2002 when he backed his car into a natural gas wellhead that was unfenced and unprotected.  The wellhead exploded and John burned to death.  In 2006 a Santa Fe jury determined that the oil and gas company – Energen Resources Corporation – was negligent and it’s conduct was reckless in…

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