Two shipowners that seized a chemical tanker off Houston are facing resistance from a new company that says that it purchased key Singapore subsidiaries of India’s Siva group as part of a receivership sale and that it is the wrong target for the litigation.

The battle follows the court seizure by Marshall Islands-­registered Mayhem Crude and Diablo Fortune of the 19,900-dwt chemical tanker JBU Opal (built 2009).