PLACID OIL COMPANY v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

No. 71-2761.

483 F.2d 880 (1973)

PLACID OIL COMPANY et al., SoLa II, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing June 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Hicks, Dallas, Tex., Robert W. Henderson, Donald K. Young, Dallas, Tex., William J. Grove, Washington, D. C., J. P. Hammond, Tulsa, Okl., for petitioners.

Richard V. Mattingly, Jr., Gordon Gooch, Gen. Counsel, Leo E. Forquer, Sol., J. Richard Tiano, First Asst. Sol., William P. Diener, Asst. Sol., F. P. C., Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Thomas G. Johnson, Houston, Tex., for intervenor Shell Oil Co.

Martin N. Erck, John R. Rebman, Houston, Tex., for intervenor Humble Oil & Ref. Co.

Robert F. LeBlanc, R. J. Leithead, Tulsa, Okl., for intervenor Cities Service Oil Co.

Richard F. Generelly, Francis H. Caskin, Washington, D. C., for intervenors Callery Properties, Inc. and others.

William O. Strong, III, John E. Watson, Houston, Tex., for intervenor Tenneco Oil Co.

William A. Sackmann, Findlay, Ohio, for intervenor Marathon Oil Co.

Frank P. Saponaro, Jr., Washington, D. C., for intervenor Superior Oil Co.

Ronald J. Jacobs, Tulsa, Okl., for intervenor Skelly Oil Co.

B. James McGraw, Warren M. Sparks, Tulsa, Okl., for intervenor Gulf Oil Corp.

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

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

John M. Young, J. Donald Annett, Kirk W. Weinert, Houston, Tex., for intervenor Texaco, Inc.

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

Derrill Cody, Willard P. Scott, Oklahoma City, Okl., for intervenor Kerr-McGee Corp.

Frederick Moring, Washington, D. C., for intervenor Associated Gas Distributors.

C. William Cooper, Hartford, Conn., William Warfield Ross, Washington, D. C., Tilford A. Jones, Bethesda, Md., for intervenor United Distribution Co.

Edward J. Kremer, Dallas, Tex., Charles E. McGee, Washington, D. C., for intervenor Atlantic Richfield Co.

Edwin S. Nail, Tulsa, Okl., for intervenor Amerada Hess Corp.

Neal Powers, Jr., Houston, Tex., for intervenors Freeport Minerals Co., U. S. Oil Co. of La., Inc., U. S. Oil of La., Ltd., John W. Mecom, Lake Washington, Inc. and E. Cockrell, Jr.

Justin R. Wolf, Washington, D. C., Woollen H. Walshe, New Orleans, La., for intervenor The California Co.

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

Dee H. Richardson, George C. Bond, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor Union Oil Co. of Cal.

John L. Williford, Kenneth Heady, Bartlesville, Okl., for intervenor Phillips Petroleum Co.

Lange Hoffman, Houston, Tex., for intervenor Pennzoil Producing Co.

Jerome J. McGrath, Washington, D. C., for intervenor Independent Natural Gas Assn. of America.

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

Sherman S. Poland, Washington, D. C., H. H. Hillyer, New Orleans, La., for intervenor The Louisiana Land & Exploration Co.

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

Cecil N. Cook, Houston, Tex., for intervenor E. Cockrell, Jr., etc.

John T. McMahon, Houston, Tex., for intervenor Ashland Oil, Inc.

Frank W. Frisk, Jr., Washington, D. C., for intervenor American Public Power Assn.

Edward Berlin, Washington, D. C., for intervenor Consumer Federation of America.

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

Raymond N. Shibley, Washington, D. C., for intervenor Pipeline Purchasers.

T. C. McCorkle, Tulsa, Okl., for intervenor Amoco Production Co.

Tom P. Hamill, Houston, Tex., Carroll L. Gilliam, Washington, D. C., for intervenor Mobil Oil Corp.

Michael H. Rosenbloom, Washington, D. C., Joseph J. Klovekorn, Albany, N. Y., for intervenor Public Service Comm. of N. Y.

George Spiegel, James F. Fairman, Jr., Washington, D. C., for intervenor Fuels Committee of Fla. Mun. Utilities Assn.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and BELL and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

Today we must decide if what FPC has said — in response to what we said about what FPC said about what the Supreme Court said — is supported by "substantial evidence on the record as a whole". In short, we must review FPC Op: 598 which undertakes to establish the "just and reasonable" rates at which natural gas producers may sell gas in the Southern Louisiana Area (SLA). This followed in the footsteps of our Austral Oil Co...

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