ENERGY RESERVES GROUP v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMIN.

Civ. A. Nos. 77-1146, 77-1087, 76-429-C6.

447 F.Supp. 1135 (1978)

ENERGY RESERVES GROUP, INC., and Suburban Propane Gas Corporation, Plaintiffs, Marathon Oil Company and Sklar & Phillips Oil Company, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and John F. O'Leary, Administrator, Federal Energy Administration, Defendants. SIERRA PETROLEUM CO., INC., Plaintiff, Maurice L. Brown Company, Intervening Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and John F. O'Leary, Administrator, Federal Energy Administration, defendants. BRADEN-ZENITH, INC., Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and John F. O'Leary, Administrator, Federal Energy Administration, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

January 26, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Kennedy of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Wichita, Kan., for Energy Reserves Group, Inc., Suburban Propane Gas Corp., and Sklar & Phillips Oil.

Martin, Pringle, Schell & Fair, Paul B. Swartz, Wichita, Kan., for Energy Reserves Group, Inc.

Arthur M. Meyer, Jr., John R. Cope of Bracewell & Patterson, Washington, D. C., for Sklar & Phillips Oil Co.

John M. Shuey, Shuey, Smith & Carlton, Shreveport, La., Warren E. Connelly of Marathon Oil, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, D. C., for Marathon Oil.

Robert F. Ochs, The Gulf Companies, Law Dept., Houston, Tex., for Gulf Co.

Richard D. Greene, Robert I. Guenthner of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Wichita, Kan., for Sierra Petroleum Co.

Robert I. Guenthner of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Wichita, Kan., for Braden-Zenith, Inc.

Robert G. Hiess, Federal Energy Administration, Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., C. Max Vassanelli, Economic Litigation Section, Rex E. Lee, Linda L. Pence, Stanley D. Rose, Gwynn T. Swinson, Civ. Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Jon K. Sargent, Asst. U. S. Atty., Topeka, Kan., for defendants.


OPINION OF THE COURT

THEIS, District Judge.

The plaintiffs and intervenors in this action are operators and owners of interests in properties capable of producing crude oil economically only by means of waterflood operations. Defendant Federal Energy Administration (FEA) is an agency of the United States, organized and existing under the provisions of the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 15 U.S.C. § 761, et seq., and Executive Order No. 11790...

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