PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORP. v. FEDERAL POWER COM'N

Nos. 7912, 7962, 8115, 8116, 8118, 8119, 8121-8125.

376 F.2d 161 (1967)

PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION, E. Cockrell, Jr., Continental Oil Company, Freeport Sulphur Company, General American Oil Company of Texas, J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., Placid Oil Company et al., Shell Oil Company, the Superior Oil Company, and U. S. Oil of Louisiana, Inc., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. Long Island Lighting Company, Philadelphia Electric Company, Philadelphia Gas Works Division of the United Gas Improvement Company, Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 22, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold H. Young, Jr., Tulsa, Okl., for petitioner in Nos. 7912 and 7962, Neal Powers, Jr., Houston, Tex., for petitioners in Nos. 8115, 8118 and 8125, Joseph C. Johnson, Houston, Tex., for petitioner in No. 8116, Cecil E. Munn, Fort Worth, Tex., for petitioner in No. 8119, Paul W. Hicks, Dallas, Tex., for petitioners in No. 8122, Oliver L. Stone, New York City, for petitioner in No. 8123, and Herbert W. Varner, Houston, Tex., for petitioner in No. 8124. With them on the briefs were:

J. P. Hammond, Tulsa, Okl., William P. Hardeman, New Orleans, La., Carroll L. Gilliam, Philip R. Ehrenkranz, and Grove, Jaskiewicz, Gilliam & Putbrese, Washington, D. C., for Pan American Petroleum Corporation, petitioner in Nos. 7912 and 7962.

Cecil N. Cook and Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, Tex., for E. Cockrell, Jr., Houston, Tex., petitioner in No. 8115, Freeport Sulphur Company, petitioner in No. 8118, and U. S. Oil of Louisiana Inc., petitioner in No. 8125.

Bruce R. Merrill and Thomas H. Burton, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil Company, petitioner in No. 8116.

W. P. Barnes, Jere G. Hayes, Dallas, Tex., and Cantey, Hanger, Gooch, Cravens & Scarborough, Fort Worth, Tex., for General American Oil Company of Texas, petitioner in No. 8119.

H. H. Hillyer, Jr., and H. H. Hillyer, III, New Orleans, La., for J. Ray McDermott, Inc., petitioner in No. 8121.

Robert W. Henderson, Dallas, Tex., for Placid Oil Company, Margaret Hunt Hill, Trustee for Hassie Hunt Trust, H. L. Hunt and Hunt Oil Company, petitioners in No. 8122.

Thomas G. Johnson, New York City, for Shell Oil Company, petitioner in No. 8123.

Murray Christian, Houston, Tex., for The Superior Oil Company, petitioner in No. 8124.

Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Washington, D. C., for the respondent. With him on the brief were Richard A. Solomon, General Counsel, Cyril S. Wofsy, Attorney, and Joel Yohalem, Atty., F.P.C.

Before LEWIS, BREITENSTEIN and HILL, Circuit Judges.


DAVID T. LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

These petitions by independent natural gas producers seek review under section 19(b) of the Natural Gas Act1 of orders entered by the Federal Power Commission establishing an "in-line" price and other conditions for permanent certificates of public convenience and necessity issued under section 7 of the Act and covering sales of gas in interstate commerce from producing areas in South Louisiana and the adjacent...

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