DISMISS and Opinion Filed September 12, 2023

S In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-23-00157-CV CRETIC ENERGY SERVICES, LLC; CATAPULT ENERGY SERVICES GROUP, LLC; AND NGP ENERGY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, Appellants V. LAREDO PETROLEUM, INC.; BIG B CRANE, LLC; AND INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF HANOVER S.E., Appellees On Appeal from the 101st Judicial District Court Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. DC-22-13638 MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Burns, Justice Molberg, and Justice Goldstein Opinion by Chief Justice Burns This appeal was filed prematurely, before an appealable judgment was signed.

See Hinde v. Hinde, 701 S.W.2d 637, 639 (Tex. 1985) (per curiam) (to be appealable, judgment must dispose of all parties and claims and be sufficiently definite and certain to define and protect litigants’ rights). Ordered to show cause why the appeal should not be dismissed for want of jurisdiction, see Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), appellants responded by letter acknowledging that we lack jurisdiction.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal. See id.

/Robert D. Burns, III/ ROBERT D. BURNS, III CHIEF JUSTICE

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–2– S Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas JUDGMENT CRETIC ENERGY SERVICES, On Appeal from the 101st Judicial LLC; CATAPULT ENERGY District Court, Dallas County, Texas SERVICES GROUP, LLC; AND Trial Court Cause No. DC-22-13638.

NGP ENERGY CAPITAL Opinion delivered by Chief Justice MANAGEMENT, LLC, Appellants Burns, Justices Molberg and Goldstein participating.

No. 05-23-00157-CV V. LAREDO PETROLEUM, INC.; BIG B CRANE, LLC; AND INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF HANOVER S.E., Appellees In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, we DISMISS the appeal.

We ORDER that appellees Laredo Petroleum, Inc.; Big B Crane, LLC; and International Insurance Company of Hanover S.E. recover their costs, if any, of this appeal from appellants Cretic Energy Services, LLC; Catapult Energy Services Group, LLC; and NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC.

Judgment entered September 12, 2023.

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