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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 01-K-0413 M.D. MARK, INC., Plaintiff, vs. KERR-McGEE CORPORATION and ORYX ENERGY COMPANY, Defendants.

DEFENDANT'S OBJECTIONS AND COUNTER DESIGNATIONS TO PLAINTIFF'S DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS
Defendant Kerr-McGee Corp. 1 hereby submits its objections and counter designations to Plaintiff's deposition designations. Counter designations are based upon the deposition designations submitted by Plaintiff. Defendant reserves the right to revise its counter designations based upon the determinations made regarding Defendant's objections to Plaintiff's designations. I. Deposition of Jay Skinner A. Objections Page/Line No. 10:23-11:9 Objection Foundation ­ lack of personal knowledge; speculation; relevance (acquisition costs for seismic data not at issue). Answer to question omitted. Relevance (comments of counsel).

23:22-25 26:12-14
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Oryx Energy Co. ceased to exist on February 26, 1999, at which time it became KerrMcGee as a result of a statutory corporate merger.

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Page/Line No. 28:7-8 29:16-18 32:4-15 38:17-18 38:21-40:8

Objection Answer to question is omitted. Relevance (comments of counsel). Relevance (comments of counsel). Refers to document not in evidence. Foundation ­ lack of personal knowledge; speculation; discusses document not in evidence. Discussion of inadmissible hearsay document; Defendants will stipulate to the facts stated at 40:19-22. Relevance. Foundation ­ lack of personal knowledge; speculation; relevance. Relevance Foundation ­ lack of personal knowledge; speculation; relevance. Discussion of inadmissible hearsay document; document not in evidence. Relevance (comments of counsel).

40:9-22; 41:4-6

41:21-42:8 42:9-43:24 42:25-44:22 44:23-45:3 47:20-48:2 54:15-19 B. Counter Designations Page/Line No. 24:1-25:15 28:19-20 34:20-35:2 II.

Deposition of Glenn Morton (Deposition of May 20, 2002) A. Objections Page/Line No. 5:20-24 31:18-20 Objection Foundation ­ lack of personal knowledge. Answer to question omitted.

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Objection Foundation ­ lack of personal knowledge; speculation; discusses document not in evidence. Omits answer to the question; discusses a document not in evidence; relevance. Omits answer to the question. Relevance; discusses document not in evidence made available to witness. Omits answer to question; questioning on subject ceased without answer. Relevance. Discusses document not made available to the witness. Relevance; hearsay. Counsel and witness each viewing and discussing different versions of a document. Relevance (discussion among counsel). Omits answer to question. Discusses a document not in evidence; relevance.

45:13-15 50:11-12 51:23-53:6 52:21-53:6 58:9-13 59:7-60:2 60:3-61:18 63:7-65:15 65:25-66:5 66:11-14 83:9-19

B.

Counter Designations Page/Line No. 4:6-8 7:8-10:17 20:2-7 20:10-22 21:6-9 31:21-32:4 36:10-12 45:16-46:12

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Page/Line No. 50:13 50:19-23 53:18-54:1 56:12-25 57:10-58:2 65:16-21 66:15-17, 23 81:12-82:9 III. Glenn Morton (Deposition of November 11, 2002) A. Objections Page/Line No. 8:20-9:24 38:20-40:12 42:3-4 43:1-19 54:13-61:5 62:2-12 64:22-25 66:10-67:3 68:4-9 68:6-7, 9 72:20-73:24 84:17-85-19 112:16-113:22 127:11-128:3 Objection Relevance. Discusses inadmissible hearsay document. Relevance. Foundation ­ lack of personal knowledge. Relevance. Relevance. Relevance. Relevance. Speculation. Relevance. Relevance. Foundation ­ lack of personal knowledge; speculation. Discusses inadmissible hearsay document; relevance. Discusses inadmissible hearsay document; foundation; relevance.

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Page/Line No. 146:1-147:4

Objection Authenticity ­ mischaracterizes two unrelated documents as being related to each other. Relevance; incomplete.

147:21-24 B. Counter Designations Page/Line No. 14:13-15:11 62:21-64:8 65:10-66:7 148:7-14 IV. Deposition of Dan Hahn A. Objections Page/Line No. 13:9-14:7 40:13-41:20 B. Counter Designations Page/Line No. 14:8-15:12 24:10-13 32:16-33:23 34:1-37:12 37:14-37:24 39:11-19 40:5-12

Objections Relevance. Foundation ­ lack of personal knowledge.

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Deposition of Paul Schlirf A. Objections Page/Line No. 29:12-16 31:12-13 32:10-33:1 37:1-25 40:23-42:25 Objection Hearsay. Answer to question is omitted. Relevance. Incomplete (omits portion of witness's answer). Foundation ­ discusses document about which witness has no knowledge; incomplete (omits portion of witness's answer). Foundation; speculation; relevance; discusses document not admitted into evidence.

78:12-79:7

B.

Counter Designations Page/Line No. 8:8-11 11:4-9 14:11-15:6 31:16-18 38:1-19 43:1-12 79:8-13

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Deposition of Robert Quillan A. Objections Page/Line No. 21:20-22:16 32:21-14 Objection Relevance. Discusses document not in evidence (identified as exhibit 5); hearsay.

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Page/Line No. 35:2-76:1

Objection Discusses documents not in evidence and prepared specifically for litigation; hearsay.

B.

Counter Designations Page/Line No. 10:2-18 15:22-16:13 24:1-13 36:2-9

Dated: September 12, 2007

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ M. Antonio Gallegos Scott S. Barker Gregory E. Goldberg M. Antonio Gallegos H OLLAND & H ART LLP 555 Seventeenth Street, Suite 3200 Post Office Box 8749 Denver, Colorado 80201-8749 (303) 295-8000 A TTORNEYS F OR D EFENDANTS

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C ERTIFICATE O F S ERVICE
I hereby certify that on September 12, 2007, I electronically filed Defendant's Objections and Counter Designations to Plaintiff's Deposition Designations with the Clerk of Court using CM/ECF system, which will serve Plaintiff's counsel (identified below) via electronic mail. I also certify that a copy of these Objections were handdelivered to Plaintiff's on this same date: P ELZ , B ONIFAZI & I NDERWISCH , P.C. Harlan P. Pelz Daniele W. Bonifazi [email protected] [email protected]

/s/ Sally A. Walter

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