CSG EXPLORATION CO. v. F.E.R.C.

Nos. 88-2548, 88-3015 and 89-9520.

930 F.2d 1477 (1991)

CSG EXPLORATION COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, Williams Natural Gas Company; Midwest Gas Users Association; Amoco Production Company; The Kansas Power & Light Company; Affiliated Gas Producers; Union Gas System, Inc.; Intervenors. AMOCO PRODUCTION COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, Midwest Gas Users Association; Affiliated Gas Producers; Williams Natural Gas Company; CSG Exploration Company; Intervenors. ARKLA EXPLORATION COMPANY; ANR Production Company; CIG Exploration, Inc.; Coastal Oil & Gas Corp.; Columbia Gas Development Corp.; Enron Oil & Gas Company; Meridian Oil, Inc.; Sonat Exploration Company; Transco Exploration Company; Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, Amoco Production Company; Williams Natural Gas Company; Midwest Gas Users Association; CSG Exploration Company; The Kansas Power & Light Company; Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

As Amended July 12, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas E. Nordlinger (Douglas G. Robinson, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Washington, D.C., and Darrel A. Kelsey, Ronald A. Skoller, and Robert N. Price, CSG Exploration Co., with him on the briefs), Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Washington, D.C., for petitioner CSG Exploration Co.

James D. Senger (Thomas A. Gottschalk and Stephen A. Herman, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., and M.J. Keating and Michael E. Rigney, Chicago, Ill., with him on the briefs), Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-intervenor Amoco Production Co.

Charles M. Darling, IV (Drew J. Fossum, Baker & Botts, Washington, D.C., Kirk W. Weinert, Coastal Oil & Gas Corp., ANR Production Co., CIG Exploration, Inc., Dennis M. Ulak, Enron Oil & Gas Co., Philip C. Wrangle, Sonat Exploration Co., Houston, Tex., Gregory W. Jones, Arkla Exploration Co., Shreveport, La., Lowell Williams and Camille N. Tarics, Columbia Gas Development Corp., Gavin H. Smith and John R. Riherd, Meridian Oil, Inc., and Robert L. McIntyre, Transco Exploration Co., Houston, Tex., with him on the briefs), Baker & Botts, Washington, D.C., for petitioners-intervenors Affiliated Gas Producers.

Michael E. Small, Wright & Talisman, Washington, D.C., on the briefs, for intervenor Williams Natural Gas Co.

Joel M. Cockrell (William S. Scherman, Gen. Counsel, Jerome M. Feit, Sol., Joseph S. Davies, Deputy Sol., on the brief), for respondent F.E.R.C.

Before MOORE, SETH, and TACHA, Circuit Judges.


TACHA, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner CSG Exploration Company (CSG) seeks review of the orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Northwest Cent. Pipeline Corp., 44 FERC ¶ 61,200 (1988) (order on remand vacating prior orders and setting complaint for hearing) and Northwest Cent. Pipeline Corp., 44 FERC ¶ 61,434 (1988) (order granting in part and denying in part rehearing and denying motion for

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