Opinion ID: 162850
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Heading: The Parties and the Master Service Agreement

Text: Devon is an Oklahoma corporation in the business of producing oil and gas. Devon operates more than 200 methane gas wells in the “Spotted Horse” field near Gillette, Wyoming. R&G, a Wyoming corporation, provides electrical service and maintenance to oil and gas producers in Campbell County, Wyoming. On April 14, 2002, R&G and Devon entered into a Master Service Agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Devon hired R&G as an independent contractor to perform electrical installation work, maintenance, and troubleshooting services in the Spotted Horse field. Two provisions of the Master Service Agreement are relevant in this case. Paragraph 7.2 of the Master Service Agreement provided as follows: Contractor agrees to protect, defend, indemnify, and hold harmless operator, its officers, directors, employees or their invitees, and any customer for whom operator is performing services, from and against all claims, demands, and causes of action of every kind and character, without limit and without regard to the cause or causes thereof or the negligence or fault (active or passive) of any party or parties including the sole, joint or concurrent negligence of operator, any theory of strict liability and defect of premises, or the unseaworthiness of any vessel (whether or not preexisting the date of this contract), arising in connection herewith in favor of contractor’s employees, contractor’s subcontractors or their employees, or contractor’s invitees on account of bodily injury, death, or damage to property. -2- Master Service Agreement, ¶ 7.2. The Master Service Agreement also contained a choice of law provision wherein the parties agreed that “[t]his Contract shall be governed, construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Oklahoma.” Id. at ¶ 10.3.