( February 4, 2026, 10:16 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — On remand from the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a Louisiana federal judge compelled arbitration of a $1.3 million dispute over a Saudi oil and gas project at the Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC), rebuffing the parties’ competing arguments for arbitration in London or Saudi Arabia, which each side maintained would be a better option after the abolition of the Dubai arbitration institution at which they had previously agreed to arbitrate....