TEXACO, INC. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

Nos. 18349, 18354, 18357, 18364, 18366, 18379, 18394, 18398, 18542, 18543.

290 F.2d 149 (1961)

TEXACO, INC., Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. SUPERIOR OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. SUN OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY and The Ohio Oil Company, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. PURE OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, Reynolds Mining Corporation, Three States Natural Gas Company, Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc., Aztec Oil & Gas Company, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. DAVIS OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. SHELL OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 1, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Solicitor, John C. Mason, Gen. Counsel, Arthur H. Fribourg, Atty., Robert L. Russell, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for respondent, Federal Power Commission.

Allen R. Grambling, El Paso, Tex., George D. Horning, Jr.* Washington, D. C., George F. Guy, Guy & Phelan, Cheyenne, Wyo., for Western Natural Gas Co. and El Paso Natural Gas Co. (intervenors in all ten cases).

Oliver L. Stone,* Geo. C. Schoenberger, Jr., New Orleans, La., Joseph W. Morris, Joseph C. Spalding, New York City, for Shell Oil Co. (petitioner in 18398 and intervenor in 18543).

Quilman B. Davis,* Dallas, Tex., for Aztec Oil and Gas Co. (petitioner in 18379).

William J. Zeman,* Rayburn L. Foster, H. K. Hudson,* Harry D. Turner, Kenneth Heady* James G. Williams, Jr., Bartlesville, Okl., for Phillips Petroleum Co. (petitioner in 18542).

John C. Snodgrass,* Palatine, Ill., for Davis Oil Co., in 18394 and The Pure Oil Co. (petitioner in 18366).

John E. McClure and Girard R. Jetton, Jr., Washington, D. C., for General Petroleum Corp. (not a party to cases on appeal).

Marvin Davis, Gen. Partner, Denver, Colo., for Davis Oil Co. (petitioner in 18394).

Jesse H. Foster, Jr., Tulsa, Okl., for The Carter Oil Co. (not a party to cases on appeal).

Bruce R. Merrill,* Lloyd F. Thanhouser, Thomas H. Burton,* Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil Co. (petitioner in 18364 and intervenor in 18543).

Robert E. May,* May, Shannon & Morley, Washington, D. C., John A. Ward, III,* Philadelphia, Pa., Martin A. Row,* Dallas, Tex., Francis H. Caskin, Washington, D. C., for Sun Oil Co. (petitioner in 18357).

James D. Parriott, Washington, D. C., Robert M. Vaughan,* Clayton L. Orn,* Findlay, Ohio, for The Ohio Oil Co. (petitioner in 18364 and intervenor in 18543).

Joe P. Hammond, Tulsa, Okl., William J. Grove, Carroll Gilliam, Washington, D. C., for Pan American Petroleum Corp. (not a party to cases on appeal).

Harry C. Welch, Leo J. Hoffman,* Turner, White, Atwood, McLane & Francis, Dallas, Tex., for Three State Natural Gas Co. (petitioner in 18379).

James D. Smullen,* Neal Powers, Jr., Butler, Binion, Rice & Cook, Houston, Tex., for Reynolds Mining Corp. (petitioner in 18379).

F. T. Anderson, in pro. per., for Petro-Atlas Corp. (not a party to cases on appeal).

Paul F. Schlicher,* New York City, Frank H. Strickler, Washington, D. C., Richard S. Lake,* Legal Dept., Texas Co. New Orleans, La., Alfred C. DeCrane, Jr.,* Legal Dept., Texaco, Inc., Houston, Tex., for Texaco, Inc. (petitioner in 18349 and intervenor in 18543).

F. P. Jones, Jr., Herbert W. Varner,* Houston, Tex., for Superior Oil Co. (petitioner in 18354 and intervenor in 18543).

Harry P. Letton, Jr.,* Henry F. Lippitt, II, T. J. Reynolds, Los Angeles, Cal. for Southern California Gas Co. (intervenor in all ten cases).

Milford Sringer, Robert M. Olson, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for Southern Counties Gas Co. of California (intervenor in all ten cases).

Rollin E. Woodbury, Harry W. Sturges, Jr., John R. Bury, Los Angeles, Cal., for Southern California Edison Co. (not a party to cases on appeal).

C. Hayden Ames, Chickering & Gregory, San Francisco, Cal., for San Diego Gas and Electric Co. (not a party to cases on appeal).

Richard H. Peterson, F. T. Searls, Malcolm H. Furbush, San Francisco, Cal., for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (intervenor in all ten cases, except in 18543).

Roger Arnebergh, City Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for City of Los Angeles (not a party to cases on appeal).

William M. Bennett,* Public Utilities Commission of the State of California Commission of the State of California, San Francisco, Cal., for People of the State of California and California Utilities Commission (petitioner in 18543).

William J. Merrill,* George H. Lawrence, Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston, Tex., Paul H. Long, Tulsa, Okl., for Humble Oil & Refining Co. (petitioner in 18379 and intervenor in 18543).

Roy L. Merrill,* William S. Richardson,* Ross Madole, Dallas, Tex., for Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. (petitioner in 18379).

Norman M. Littell, Washington, D. C., for Navajo Tribe of Indians (Amicus) in 18543.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and JONES, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing Denied June 1, 1961 in No. 18543.

TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

These cases, consolidated for argument and to some extent for briefing in this court are brought to review an order of the Federal Power Commission. The order complained of granted to El Paso Natural Gas Company and to certain independent producers certificates of public convenience and necessity authorizing the construction and operation of pipeline and other facilities by El Paso and it authorized...

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