DIAMOND SHAMROCK EXPLORATION CO., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Donald P. HODEL, Secretary of the Interior and William C. Bettenberg, Director, etc., Defendants-Appellees.
CITIES SERVICE OIL AND GAS CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Donald P. HODEL, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
MESA PETROLEUM COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR, Defendant-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 17, 1988.
August 17, 1988.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
J. Berry St. John, Jr., Deborah Bahn Price, Gene W. Lafitte, New Orleans, La., for all appellants in No. 3195.
Patricia A. Patten, Cities Service Oil and Gas, Tulsa, Okl., for Cities Service Oil and Gas.
Salvatore J. Casamassima, Exxon Co., U.S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for Exxon Co.
W.R. Buck, Dallas, Tex., for Mobil Oil Corp. and Mobil Exploration and Prod. U.S. Inc.
Shirley C. Friend, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Texaco, Inc.
Dana Contratto, Ellen T. Giannuzzi, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., for Diamond Shamrock Exploration Co.
Laura E. Frossard, Rebecca A. Donnellan, Robert L. Klarquist, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., S. Mark Gallinghouse, Asst. U.S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees in No. 87-3195.
David T. Deal, G. William Frick, General Counsel, American Petroleum Institute, Philip A. Cooney, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae-American Petroleum Institute (They support oil companies).
John H. Conway, Jerome M. Feit, Attys., F.E.R.C., Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae F.E.R.C.
Laura E. Frossard, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., Joseph S. Cage, Jr., U.S. Atty., Lafayette, La., Dirk D. Snel, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant in No. 87-4069.
John H. Conway, Jerome M. Feit, Attys., F.E.R.C., Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae F.E.R.C.
Daniel Joseph, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Jerry E. Rothrock, Washington, D.C., James R. Nieset, Plauche, Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, La., for plaintiff-appellee in No. 87-4069.
Before BROWN, JOHNSON, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:
The issue raised is whether payments by a pipeline-purchaser to a lessee-producer of a federal oil and gas lease pursuant to a take-or-pay clause in its gas sales contract with the pipeline-purchaser are subject to payment of a royalty when the take-or-pay payment is received, not as value for gas actually taken, but as part of the take-or-pay obligation under the contract. This is another of the now prevalent take-or-pay cases with which...
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