Gulf Oil Corp. v. Simon

Gulf Oil Corporation brought this suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia against the Administrator of the Federal Energy Office (hereinafter, FEO) to enjoin the mandatory allocation of crude oil and other petroleum products as prescribed in FEO regulations, originally effective December 27, 1973 and amended and implemented in January, 1974. 39 Fed.Reg. 3908. These regulations imposed upon Gulf, a producer, importer and refiner of crude oil, a duty to offer to sell a specified portion of its total supply of crude oil to other refiners, some of them its major competitors, who…