SHELL OIL COMPANY v. F. P. C.

Nos. 74-3330, 74-4036, 74-4040, 74-4044, 74-4038, 74-4042, 74-4147, 75-1396, 74-4233, 75-1123, 75-1164, 75-1246, 75-1266, 75-1268, 75-1270, 75-1614, 75-1620, 75-1615, 75-1617, 75-1616, 75-1618, 75-1619, 75-1621 to 75-1623, 75-1499, 75-1500, 75-1590, 75-1756.

520 F.2d 1061 (1975)

SHELL OIL COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, and consolidated cases. In re NATIONAL RATE CASES FOR NEW GAS.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 3, 1975.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Stevenson, Tulsa, Okl., for Amerada Hess Corp.

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

Edward J. Kremer, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for Atlantic Richfield Co.

David M. Whitney, Houston, Tex., for Burmah Oil & Gas Co.

William C. Charlton, Pampa, Tex., for Cabot Corp.

Justin R. Wolf, Washington, D. C., for The California Co.

Samuel H. Riggs, Jr., Tulsa, Okl., for Cities Service Oil Co.

Giles D. H. Snyder, Charleston, W. Va., for Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.

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

Paul W. Wright, Houston, Tex., for Exxon Co.

Richard F. Generelly, Washington, D. C., for General American Oil Co. of Texas.

Edward J. Grenier, Jr., Washington, D. C., for General Motors Corp.

B. James McGraw, Tulsa, Okl., for Gulf Oil Corp.

L. Dan Jones, Washington, D. C., for Independent Petroleum Association of America.

Jerome J. McGrath, Washington, D. C., for The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.

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

Philip R. Ehrenkranz, Washington, D. C., for Mobil Oil Corp.

Paul W. Mallory, Chicago, Ill., for Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America.

Patrick J. McCarthy, Omaha, Neb., for Northern Natural Gas Co.

Malcolm H. Furbush, San Francisco, Cal., for Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

Gordon Gooch, Washington, D. C., for Pennzoil Co., Tenneco Oil Co., Texasgulf, Inc., and Rodman Corp.

John L. Williford, Bartlesville, Okl., for Phillips Petroleum Co.

Richard A. Solomon, Washington, D. C., for The Public Service Commission of the State of New York.

Donald J. Richardson, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., for San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

Morton L. Simons, Washington, D. C., for Sen. James Abourezk.

David C. Henri, Tulsa, Okl., for Skelly Oil Co.

Thomas D. Clarke, Los Angeles, Cal., for Southern California Gas Co.

Lilyan G. Sibert, Houston, Tex., for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.

Roger L. Brandt, Houston, Tex., for Texaco, Inc.

Kenneth L. Riedman, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for Union Oil Co. of California.

Tilford A. Jones, Bethesda, Md., for United Distribution Companies.

W. DeVier Pierson, Washington, D. C., for United Gas Pipe Line Co.

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

Pat F. Timmons, Houston, Tex., for Superior Oil Co.

Thomas W. Derryberry, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, N. M., for State of New Mexico.

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

William H. Emerson, Chicago, Ill., for Amoco Production Co.

Robert F. Starzel, Denver, Colo., for Kerr-McGee Corp.

Arthur S. Berner, Houston, Tex., for Inexco Oil Co.

Neal Powers, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Texas Production Co. and Freeport Minerals Co.

Charles F. Wheatley, Jr., Washington, D. C., for American Public Gas Assn.

James W. McCartney, Houston, Tex., for Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. and Transwestern Pipeline Co.

Paul W. Hicks, Dallas, Tex., for Placid Oil Co. and Hunt Oil Co.

George W. McHenry, Sol., Robert Perdue, Deputy General Counsel, Washington, D. C., for respondent Federal Power Commission.

Before BELL, CLARK and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing Denied in No. 74-3330 January 14, 1975. See 525 F.2d 1261.

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

On this review of consolidated cases entitled National Rate Cases For New Gas, we sustain the Federal Power Commission's establishment of a national rate for jurisdictional wellhead sales of natural gas.1 In so doing, for the first time in this Circuit, we...

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