Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest v. Federal Power Commission, Continental Oil Company v. Federal Power Commission

REED, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal by more than some seventy independent producers of natural gas all of whose properties are in the Woodland gas field, Harrison County, Texas, from two orders of the Federal Power Commission. One producer, Stan-olind Oil and Gas Company, is not only a producer, i. e., owns certain gas producing land or rights in the field, but also is an operator, i. e., one who sold under a twenty-year contract and regularly delivered its own gas and that of other producers involved to the Mississippi River Fuel Corporation for handling and transmission in interstate…