PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

Nos. 8723, 8778, 8808, 8829.

377 F.2d 278 (1967)

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, Union Oil Company of California, Gulf Oil Corporation, and Mobil Oil Corporation, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Gas Company and Southern Counties Gas Company of California, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, the People of the State of California and the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, and the State of Texas, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

April 18, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Rebman, Bartlesville, Okl., and John C. Snodgrass, Houston, Tex., for petitioners in Nos. 8723, 8778 and 8808; Wm. J. Zeman, Lloyd G. Minter, Kenneth Heady, Bartlesville, Okl. and Stanley L. Cunningham, Oklahoma City, Okl., on the brief, for Phillips Petroleum Co.

Warren M. Sparks and Donald R. Arnett, Tulsa, Okl., on the brief for Gulf Oil Corporation.

Carroll L. Gilliam, Washington, D. C., for Mobil Oil Corporation, petitioner in No. 8829; Tom P. Hamill, Robert D. Haworth, Houston, Tex., Donald G. Canuteson, Dallas, Tex., Philip R. Ehrenkranz, and Grove, Jaskiewicz, Gilliam & Putbrese, Washington, D. C., on the brief.

Joel Yohalem, Atty., Federal Power Commission, for respondent; Richard A. Solomon, Gen. Counsel, and Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Solicitor, Federal Power Commission, on the brief.

Frederick T. Searls, Malcolm H. Furbush and Stanley T. Skinner, San Francisco, Cal., on the brief for Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

Chickering & Gregory, Sherman Chickering, C. Hayden Ames, and Donald J. Richardson, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., on the brief for San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

Harvey L. Goth, Los Angeles, Cal., for Southern California Gas Co. and Southern Counties Gas Co. of California, intervenors; John Ormasa, Los Angeles, Cal., on the brief.

Lawrence Q. Garcia, San Francisco, Cal., for the People of State of California and Public Utilities Commission of State of California, intervenors; Mary Moran Pajalich, Chief Counsel, and J. Calvin Simpson, Principal Counsel, San Francisco Cal., on the brief.

Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen., Hawthorne Phillips, First Asst. Atty. Gen., T. B. Wright, Executive Asst., J. Arthur Sandlin, C. Daniel Jones, Jr., and Linward Shivers, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Texas, on the brief for State of Texas, intervenor.

Before LEWIS, BREITENSTEIN and HILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The petitions by independent producers of natural gas seek review of Federal Power Commission Opinion No. 484 and accompanying orders. These relate to § 7 applications for certificates of public convenience and necessity covering jurisdictional sales of natural gas produced from various fields located within the Permian Basin. By its Opinions Nos. 468 and 468-A the Commission fixed area rates for Permian Basin gas. In the instant proceedings, the...

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