UPG, Inc. v. Edwards

CHRISTENSEN, Judge.

Presented to us on this appeal is the question of whether certain hydrocarbons occurring in natural gas pipelines, which the parties refer to respectively as “pipeline residue” and “condensate,” should be treated for pricing purposes1 as “crude oil” defined by 10 C.F.R. § 212.31.2 In the *148context of facts submitted to the Federal Energy Administration (predecessor of the Department of Energy)3 by plaintiff-appellant UPG, Inc., with a request for an interpretation pursuant to 10 C.F.R. Part 205,4 the Office of General Counsel of the agency determined that they should be so…