Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co. v. Federal Power Commission

This case presents an important question under the Natural Gas Act.1 This question, central to the case, is: When a company, proposing to make, under contract, jurisdictional sales2 of natural gas in interstate commerce, *139applies for a certificate of public convenience and necessity as required by the Act, and requests that the certificate be limited in time to the duration of a contract for the sale of gas which it has entered, does the Federal Power Commission have the authority to tender it, instead, a certificate without time limitation?

Petitioner, Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Company, an…