OKLAHOMA NATURAL GAS CO. v. FEDERAL POWER COM'N

No. 13783.

257 F.2d 634 (1958)

OKLAHOMA NATURAL GAS COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John S. Carlson, Tulsa, Okl., of the bar of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Mr. Norman A. Flaningan, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Robert Lee Russell, Washington, D. C., for respondent. Messrs. Willard W. Gatchell, General Counsel, Federal Power Commission, Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Solicitor, Federal Power Commission, and Alvin A. Kurtz, Attorney, Federal Power Commission, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for respondent.

Mr. Clarence H. Ross, Chicago, Ill., with whom Mr. John A. Kratz, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for intervenor, Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America.

Mr. Raybourne Thompson, Houston, Tex., of the bar of the Supreme Court of Texas, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. John J. Wilson, Washington, D. C., and Warren M. Sparks, Tulsa, Okl., were on the brief, for intervenor, Oil Drilling, Inc., et al. Mr. Frank H. Strickler, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for intervenor, Oil Drilling, Inc., et al.

Before BAZELON, DANAHER and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.


BASTIAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal seeks review of an opinion and order of the Federal Power Commission (Commission), Opinion No. 299 and accompanying order of December 4, 1956, 16 F.P.C. 80, 16 PUR 3d 277 (1956), amendatory order of January 22, 1957, 17 F.P.C. 67, and order of January 31, 1957, 17 F.P.C. 85, in issuing certificates of public convenience and necessity pursuant to § 7(e) of the Natural Gas Act, as amended. (Acts of June 21, 1938, c. 556, 52 Stat...

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