AMOCO PRODUCTION CO. v. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Civ. A. Nos. 78-463, 78-466, 78-471, 78-519, 79-47, 78-464, 78-530 and 79-194.

512 F.Supp. 815 (1981)

AMOCO PRODUCTION COMPANY, Amoco Oil Company and Gulf Oil Corporation, Exxon Corporation, Sun Oil Company and Atlantic Richfield Company, Mobil Oil Corporation and Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc., Shell Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, InterNorth, Inc., Northern Gas Products Company, Northern Propane Gas Company and UPG, Inc., Aminoil, USA, Inc., Texgas Corporation and Allied Chemical Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

April 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William O. LaMotte, III, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., Charles E. Cheek, Tulsa, Okl., Robert W. Fuller, Houston, Tex., Charles C. Hairston, Tulsa, Okl., Robert F. Ochs, Houston, Tex., The Gulf Companies, Tulsa, Okl., for Gulf.

R. Bruce McLean, Daniel Joseph, Harry R. Silver, Joseph T. Casey, Jr., Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld, Washington, D. C., Charles S. Lindberg, Fairfax, Va., Donald E. Marquardt, Gail F. Schulz, Mark J. Forsch, Mobil Oil Corp., New York City, E. S. McCrum, Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc., New Orleans, La., for Mobil.

Thomas Herlihy, III, Herlihy & Herlihy, Wilmington, Del., M. W. Parse, Jr., Jerry E. Smith, Reagan W. Simpson, Fulbright & Jaworski, Barbara Finney, Edward de la Garza, Houston, Tex., for Exxon.

David L. Roll, Samuel T. Perkins, Seth Goldberg, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D. C., Richard C. Morse, Atlantic Richfield Co., Los Angeles, Cal., Kenneth R. Dickerson, Atlantic Richfield Co., Dallas, Tex., for Atlantic Richfield.

Charles S. Crompton, Jr., Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., Donald B. Craven, Robert K. Huffman, James B. Altman, Miller & Chevalier, Washington, D. C., David M. Francis, Mona A. Yoes, Conoco Inc., Houston, Tex., for Conoco.

Charles F. Richards, Jr., Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., William Simon, William E. Wickens, Frederick S. Frei, Joanne Parsons, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D. C., William G. Riddoch, Shell Oil Co., Houston, Tex., for Shell.

Stephen E. Herrmann, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., Kenneth L. Bachman, Jr., Henry J. Plog, Jr., Eugene M. Goott, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, D. C., Robert A. Bussian, Gerard J. Swonke, Aminoil USA, Inc., Houston, Tex., John R. Cope, Arthur M. Meyer, Jr., Thomas F. Holt, Jr., Bracewell & Patterson, Washington, D. C., for Aminoil.

Richard G. Morgan, Donald S. Arbour, Martha Priddy Patterson, O'Connor & Hannan, Washington, D. C., Dean Wallace, Frank J. Duffy, Michael P. Moran, InterNorth, Inc., Omaha, Neb., for InterNorth.

Bruce M. Stargatt, Jack B. Jacobs, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, Del., James V. Carroll, III, Edith H. Jones, Bruce R. Coulombe, Andrews, Kurth, Cambell & Jones, Timothy T. West, Allied Chemical Corp., Houston, Tex., for Texgas and Allied Chemical.

James W. Garvin, Jr., U. S. Atty., John X. Denney, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., Don W. Crockett, Robert Wehrle-Einhorn, Ellen P. Spangler, Courtney M. Price, L. Lamont Bossard, Jr., U. S. Dept. of Energy, Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., C. Max Vassanelli, Dina R. Lassow, Stephen E. Hart, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


OPINION

STAPLETON, District Judge:

These preenforcement review actions against the Department of Energy and related defendants (collectively "DOE") challenge that agency's current interpretation of certain regulations pertaining to the pricing of natural gas liquids ("NGLs") and natural gas liquid products ("NGLPs"). There are two distinct categories of plaintiffs: integrated processors of NGLs and NGLPs which do not refine crude oil ("processor-marketers...

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