Valero Transmission Co. v. Mitchell Energy Corp.

EVANS, Chief Justice.

• Valero Transmission Company (“Vale-ro”), a natural gas pipeline company, appeals from a temporary injunction order requiring that it purchase and take, pending a trial on the merits, certain quantities of gas from Mitchell Energy Corporation (“Mitchell”), a gas producing company, pursuant to its gas purchase agreement with Mitchell.

In the temporary injunction order, the trial court found that on March 21, 1975, Mitchell and Valero entered into a gas purchase contract that as amended, has a contract term of 20 years from February 1, 1981. The court found that under the…