Marathon Oil has claimed victory in a legal battle against partners Spirit Energy and Taqa over which company should foot the cost of a £68 million ($87 million) deficit in a pension scheme covering workers on the Brae field in the UK North Sea.
Brae operator Marathon had earlier claimed against Spirit and Taqa, both partners in two joint operating agreements on the central North Sea development dating back to 1980 and 1990, for tens of millions of pounds of pension-related costs it had incurred.
