Union Texas Products Corporation and Union Texas Petroleum Corporation v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

JOHN R. BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Union Texas Products Corporation and Union Texas Petroleum Corporation (Union Texas) seek judicial review of orders issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission). The Commission had ordered Union Texas to refund $1.8 million dollars collected as an inflation adjustment to the statutorily prescribed base rate, because Union Texas inadvertently neglected to file a one-page form specifying which of its wells qualified as “stripper wells” under § 108 of the Natural Gas Policy Act (NGPA). Because Union Texas satisfied all four of the…