IN RE SOUTHERN LOUISIANA AREA RATE CASES

No. 27492.

444 F.2d 125 (1971)

In re SOUTHERN LOUISIANA AREA RATE CASES. AUSTRAL OIL CO. et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 16, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynn R. Coleman, J. Evans Attwell, Houston, Tex., for Austral Oil Co., Inc., Ray McDermott & Co., Inc. and Issac Arnold and others.

Richard F. Generelly, Shannon & Morley, Washington, D. C., C. R. Eyster, San Antonio, Tex., for Forest Oil Corp.

Robert L. Norris, Martin N. Erck, J. Kirbey Ellis, Houston, Tex., for Humble Oil & Refining Co. and Humble Gas Transmission Co.

Herbert W. Varner, Murray Christian, Houston, Tex., for Superior Oil Co.

Frank P. Saponaro, Jr., Carrol L. Gilliam, Washington, D. C., Robert D. Haworth, Tom P. Hamill, Houston, Tex., William H. Tabb, Dallas, Tex., for Mobil Oil Corp.

Cecil E. Munn, Fort Worth, Tex., for General American Oil Co. of Texas.

Kenneth Heady, Bartlesville, Okl., for Phillips Petroleum Co.

Richard F. Remmers, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Sohio Petroleum Co.

Thomas G. Johnson, New York City, for Shell Oil Co.

Sherman S. Poland, Washington, D. C., for Cities Service Co. and Atlantic Richfield Co.

Warren M. Sparks, Donald R. Arnett, Tulsa, Okl., for Gulf Oil Corp.

Stanley M. Morley, Washington, D. C., for Sun Oil Co.

Morton L. Simons, Washington, D. C., Kent H. Brown, Albany, N. Y., for Public Service Comm. of the State of New York.

John R. Rebman, Bartlesville, Okl., Edwin S. Nail, Tulsa, Okl., Paul W. Hicks, Dallas, Tex., William R. Slye, James D. Annett, Houston, Tex., William K. Tell, Jr., New York City, for Texaco, Inc.

Morton Taylor, Jack Fariss, Joseph F. Diver, Findlay, Ohio, for Marathon Oil Co.

Homer D. Johnson, William C. Charlton, Pampa, Tex., for Cabot Corp.

Robert W. Sayre, Philadelphia, Pa., for Amerada Petroleum Corp.

George E. Morrow, Memphis, Tenn., Reuben Goldberg, Charles F. Wheatley, Jr., Washington, D. C., for Municipal Distributors Group.

John Ormasa, Los Angeles, Cal., for Pac. Light Serv., So. Cal. Gas.

John E. Holtzinger, Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, D. C., for Associated Gas Distributors.

Jerome J. McGrath, Harry L. Albrecht, Washington, D. C., for Independent Natural Gas Asso. of America.

John E. Watson, Houston, Tex., for Tenneco Oil Co.

Justin R. Wolf, Joel Yokalem, Washington, D. C., for The California Co., a Division of Chevron Oil Co. and Union Texas Petroleum, a Division of Allied Chemical Corp.

Woollen H. Walshe, New Orleans, La., for The California Co., a Division of Chevron Oil Co.

Elliott G. Flowers, Houston, Tex., for Union Texas Petroleum, a Division of Allied Chemical Corp.

Donald K. Young, Robert W. Henderson, Dallas, Tex., for Hunt Oil Co. and others.

Morris Wright, New Orleans, La., for Estate of William G. Helis, a Partnership.

Tom Burton, Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil Co.

H. H. Hillyer, Jr., New Orleans, La., for J. R. Frankel.

Neal Powers, Jr., Cecil N. Cook, Houston, Tex., for Bradco Properties, Inc., E. Cochrell, Jr., Freeport Sulphur Co., John W. Mecam and others.

Clyde E. Willbern, Houston, Tex., for Getty Oil Co.

H. Y. Rowe, El Dorado, Ark., George C. Bond, Douglas C. Gregg, Los Angeles, Cal., Errol Anderson, Houston, Tex., for Union Oil Co. of California.

Phillip R. Ehrenkranz, Carroll L. Gilliam, Washington, D. C., for Alco Oil and Gas Co.

Louis Flax, Washington, D. C., for Southwest Gas Producing Co.

Raymond N. Shibley, Washington, D. C., James E. Thompson, Ardmore, Okl., Richard L. Schrepferman, James E. Bye, Barkley Clark, Denver, Colo., for Samedan Oil Corp.

Willard P. Scott, Lynn Adams, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Kerr-McGee Corp.

R. J. Leithead, Bartlesville, Okl., Cecil C. Cammack, Tulsa, Okl., for Cities Service Oil Co.

Carroll L. Gilliam, Washington, D. C., J. P. Hammond, T. C. McCorkle, Tulsa, Okl., for Pan American Petroleum Corp.

Richard Solomon, Gen. Counsel, Peter H. Schiff, Sol., Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before THORNBERRY, COLEMAN and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

PER CURIAM:

In our original opinion, 428 F.2d 407, we indicated that there was new evidence of a possible impending gas supply shortage. Our affirmance of the Commission's orders is structured so as to allow the Commission great flexibility in dealing with this problem. To this end, we indicated that the Commission had authority under section 16 of the Natural Gas Act to stay, modify or rescind...

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