CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

Nos. 22163, 22867-22869.

370 F.2d 57 (1966)

CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. TIDEWATER OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. The ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. CITIES SERVICE OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 27, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd F. Thanhouser, Thomas H. Burton, Joseph C. Johnson, Bruce R. Merrill, Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil Co.

Edmund D. Buckley, Los Angeles, Cal., Clyde E. Willbern, Lloyd Armstrong, Houston, Tex., for Tidewater Oil Co.

Bernard A. Foster, Jr., Ross, Marsh & Foster, Washington, D. C., Stuart J. Scott, Dallas, Tex., for Atlantic Refining Co.

Gentry Lee, Cecil C. Cammack, Graydon D. Luthey, R. J. Leithead, Bartlesville, Okl., for Cities Service Oil Co.

Israel Convisser, Atty., Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Sol., Richard A. Solomon, Gen. Counsel., F. P. C., Washington, D. C., for respondent.

James R. Lacey, Newark, N. J., for Public Service Electric & Gas Co., intervenor.

J. Harry Mulhern, Edward S. Kirby, Newark, N. J., for Public Service Electric & Gas Co., Intervenor.

Before WISDOM and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners, the four Catco companies, seek review of Federal Power Commission orders. The basic question is whether the petitioners' transfer, in the form of lease-sale agreements, of certain lease-hold interests in the offshore Ship Shoal Field is a sale of natural gas in interstate commerce within the meaning of Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act.1 United Gas Improvement...

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