WRT ENERGY CORP. v. F.E.R.C.

No. 95-60326.

107 F.3d 314 (1997)

WRT ENERGY CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Brooke Farnsworth, Mary Frances vonBerg, Farnsworth & vonBerg, Houston, TX, for Petitioner.

Katherine B. Waldbauer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, BARKSDALE and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.


RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

The principal issue at hand is whether natural gas wells, which previously produced from a gas cap and were subsequently fitted with new technology for removing gas from the brine in the aquifer, qualify as producing "high-cost natural gas" pursuant to the Natural Gas Policy Act, 15 U.S.C. § 3301 et seq. (repealed 1989). Reversing determinations by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation...

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