AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS, INC. v. F. E. R. C.

No. 78-2011.

650 F.2d 687 (1981)

AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick Moring, Dana Contratto, Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., Crowell & Moring, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., for Associated Gas Distributors.

Peter H. Schiff, Gen. Counsel, Public Service Commission of N.Y., Albany, N.Y., Dennis Lane, Richard A. Solomon, Barry A. Friedman, Wilner & Scheiner, Washington, D.C., for Public Service Commission for the State of New York.

Robert R. Nordhaus, Gen. Counsel, Jerome M. Feit, Deputy Sol., George H. Williams, Jr., Barry J. Sheingold, Attys., Washington, D.C., for respondent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

James R. Patton, Jr., David B. Robinson, Duane A. Siler, Linda Elizabeth Buck, Patton, Boggs & Blow, Washington, D.C., Harry E. Barsh, Jr., Camp, Carmouche, Palmer, Barsh & Hunter, Washington, D.C., for the State of Louisiana.

Irving Jacob Golub, Stephen M. Hackerman, Nancy Rice, Houston, Tex., Walter W. Kurczewski, Chicago, Ill., for Estech General Chemicals Corp.; Baker & Botts, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Vernon M. Turner, Michael B. Silva, Tenneco Oil Co., Houston, Tex., Gordon Gooch, Bruce F. Kiely, Kirk K. Van Tine, Baker & Botts, Washington, D.C., for Tenneco Oil Co.

Edward H. Gerstenfield, Jones & Gerstenfield, P.A., Bethesda, Md., for First Mississippi Corp.; Alfred L. Price, Jackson, Miss., of counsel.

Justin R. Wolf, Charles H. Shoneman, George H. Rothchild, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Placid Oil Co. and Hunt Petroleum Corporation, Hunt Oil Company, Hunt Industries; Paul W. Hicks, Dallas, Tex., Robert W. Henderson, Dallas, Tex., of counsel.

Eric A. Eisen, Jerome Ackerman, Nicholas W. Fels, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

Joseph C. Johnson, Thomas H. Burton, Carolyn S. Hazel, Houston Tex., for Continental Oil Co.

Platt W. Davis, III, Vinson & Elkins, Washington, D.C., J. Evans Attwell, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, Tex., for TransOcean Oil Co.

Harold L. Talisman, Peter L. Hatton, Littman, Richter, Wright & Talisman, Washington, D.C., for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a Division of Tenneco, Inc.

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

William T. Miller, Miller, Balis & O'Neil, P.C., Charles F. Wheatley, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Municipal Distributors Groups.

Irving Jacob Golub, Stephen M. Hackerman, Baker & Botts, Houston, Tex. for Swift Agricultural Chemicals Corp.

Richard F. Generelly, Shannon & Morley, Washington, D.C., W. O. Strong, III, Houston, Tex., for Ashland Oil, Inc.

Joseph H. Moss, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for Southern Natural Gas Co.

Lauren Eaton, Houston, Tex., for Gulf Oil Corp.

Before HENDERSON, ANDERSON and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


R. LANIER ANDERSON, III, Circuit Judge:

Producers of offshore federal domain natural gas, customers of these producers, pipeline companies serving the offshore federal domain,1 and the State of Louisiana ("producer petitioners" or "producers") join in petitioning this court to review orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") denying certificates of public convenience and necessity...

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