Tronox Files Fraudulent Conveyance Lawsuit Against Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Kerr-McGee Corporation

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Tronox Incorporated (Pink Sheets: TRXAQ, TRXBQ) today filed an adversary complaint against Kerr-McGee Corporation and its successor, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, in its Chapter 11 Cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint asserts that Kerr-McGee defrauded Tronox’s creditors through its separation and spin-off of its former chemical subsidiary in 2006. Tronox seeks recovery for fraudulent transfers involving valuable oil and gas assets and massive actual and contingent environmental, tort, retiree and other liabilities. The complaint asserts that Tronox was doomed to fail at the time of the spin off, having been grossly undercapitalized, stripped of its most valuable assets and essential cash, and overburdened with legacy environmental, tort and retiree liabilities. Less than three years after the spin-off, Tronox filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on January 12, 2009.

Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Tronox is the world’s fourth-largest producer and marketer of titanium dioxide pigment, with an annual production capacity of 535,000 tonnes. Titanium dioxide pigment is an inorganic white pigment used in paint, coatings, plastics, paper and many other everyday products. The company’s four pigment plants, which are located in the United States, Australia and the Netherlands, supply high-performance products to approximately 1,100 customers in 100 countries. In addition, Tronox produces electrolytic products, including sodium chlorate, electrolytic manganese dioxide, boron trichloride, elemental boron and lithium manganese oxide.

    Contact: Robert Gibney
             Direct:  405-775-5105
             robert.gibney@tronox.com

SOURCE Tronox Incorporated