ECEE, INC. v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COM'N

Nos. 78-3688, 79-3428, 79-3521, 79-3912, 79-3913, 79-3914, 80-1306, 80-1119, 80-1468 and 80-1606.

645 F.2d 339 (1981)

ECEE, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal Powers, Jr., Byron A. Thomas, Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, Tex., for Ecee, Inc. et al.

Charles E. Suffling, R. Gordon Gooch, Bruce F. Kiely, Charles M. Darling, IV, Washington, D. C., for Tenneco Oil Co., General American Oil Co. of Texas, Texasgulf, Inc., Pennzoil Co. et al.

Jere G. Hayes, Robert C. Murray, General American Oil Co. of Texas, Dallas, Tex., for General American Oil Co. of Texas.

Ted G. White, Texasgulf, Inc., Houston, Tex., for Texasgulf, Inc.

Jerry M. Gross, Chicago, Ill., for Amoco Production Co.

Richard G. Harris, Kerr-McGee Corp., Oklahoma City, Okl., for Kerr-McGee Corp.

Sherman S. Poland, Nancy J. Hubbard, Washington, D. C., Martin N. Erck, C. Roger Hoffman, Houston, Tex., for Exxon Corp.

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

John E. Seddelmeyer, New Orleans, La., for Monterey Pipeline Co.

L. Eugene Dickinson, Kentucky West Virginia Gas Co., Ashland, Ky., Ross, Marsh & Foster, Washington, D. C., for Kentucky West Virginia Gas Co.

John E. Holtzinger, Jr., Karol Lyn Newman, Washington, D. C., for Consolidated Gas Supply Corp.

Michael J. Manning, Patrick J. Keeley, Washington, D. C., for Columbia Gas Development Corp., Energy Ventures, Inc. & Coleve.

Fulbright & Jaworski, Washington, D. C., for Forest Oil Corp.

Edward H. Forgotson, Lisa Anderson, O'Neill, Forgotson & Roncali, Washington, D. C., for Texas Oil & Gas Corp.

Justin R. Wolf, Washington, D. C., for Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

James T. McManus, Harold L. Talisman, Washington, D. C., Lilyan G. Sibert, Houston, Tex., for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.

Byron A. Thomas, Houston, Tex., for Inexco Oil Co.

Jerome Mrowca, Joseph M. Wells, Paul E. Goldstein, Richard E. Terry, Chicago, Ill., for Natural Gas Pipeline Co.

Frederick Moring, Jennifer Waters Hitt, Washington, D. C., for Associated Gas Distributors.

Jeffrey G. Shrader, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Collingsworth & Nelson, William T. Sperry, J. Clayton La Grone, Tulsa, Okl., for Williams Exploration Co.

Thomas H. Burton, Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil Co.

Peter H. Schiff, Gen. Counsel, Albany, N. Y., Wilner & Scheiner, Washington, D. C., for Public Service Commission of the State of New York.

William W. Brackett, Daniel F. Collins, Terry O. Vogel, Washington, D. C., for Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline Co.

Lawrence E. Glenn, Robert W. Fuller, Lauren Eaton, A. Paul Brandimarte, Jr., Jeffrey G. Shrader, Houston, Tex., for Gulf Oil Corp.

David G. Stevenson, Marilyn O. Adamson, Tulsa, Okl., for Amerada Hess Corp.

Charles E. Reny, Pat F. Timmons, Houston, Tex., for Superior Oil Co.

Richard F. Remmers, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Sohio Natural Resources Co.

Carmen Chidester Gonzalez, Robert S. Wheeler, Tulsa, Okl., for Cities Service Co.

Frank X. Kelly, Gallagher, Boland, Meiburger & Brosnan, Washington, D. C., for Northern Natural Gas Co.

Kim Martin Clark, Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld, Washington, D. C., for Northwest Pipeline Corp.

Arnold D. Berkeley, Bruce J. Wendel, Richard I. Chaifetz, Washington, D. C., for Arizona Electric Power Cooperative.

Karen A. Berndt, Ralph J. Pearson, Jr., Robert P. Thibault, Paul J. Broyles, John A. Ramsey, Houston, Tex., for Texaco, Inc.

John L. Williford, Larry Pain, C. J. Roberts, Bartlesville, Okl., for Phillips Petroleum Co.

Robert D. Haworth, Charles J. McClees, Jr., Letitia Z. Taitte, Houston, Tex., Mobil Oil Corp. et al.

David M. Whitney, Houston, Tex., for Aminoil USA, Inc.

Carolyn S. Hazel, Thomas H. Burton, Herman E. Garner, Houston, Tex., for Conoco, Inc.

Thomas G. Johnson, Robert A. Hasty, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Shell Oil Co.

Roscoe C. Elmore, B. James McGraw, Houston, Tex., for Cabot Corp.

Victor E. Fitzmaurice, Los Angeles, Cal., for Union Oil Co. of California.

Baker & Botts, Charles E. Suffling, Charles M. Darling, IV, Washington, D. C., Michael B. Silva, Phyllis Rainey, Richard L. Wynne, Houston, Tex., for Tenneco Oil Co.

R. Gordon Gooch, Charles M. Darling, IV, Charles E. Suffling, Baker & Botts, Washington, D. C., Patricia A. Curran, Julie Langdon, Michael B. Silva, Phyllis G. Rainey, Houston, Tex., Jere G. Hayes, Dallas, Tex., Robert C. Murray, Paul Van Wagenen, Ted G. White, Houston, Tex., for Pennzoil Co. et al.

Arnold D. Berkeley, Bruce J. Wendel, Richard I. Chaifetz, Washington, D. C., for Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.

Jerome Nelson, Sol., Kenneth F. Plumb, Eli Farrah, Washington, D. C., J. Paul Douglas, Atty., Robert Nordhaus, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C., for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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


SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This case involves review of certain Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) interim and final regulations implementing the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978. NGPA, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 3301-3432. Challenged are those regulations governing the well determination process and collection of sales revenues, and those addressing the applicability of certain NGPA pricing categories. This Court affirms the FERC orders on review.

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