Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation v. Federal Power Commission, United Gas Pipe Line Company, Intervenor

LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

These petitions to review Federal Power Commission certificate orders amount, on analysis, to a challenge to the FPC’s ruling that the underlying contractual arrangements entitled United Gas Pipeline Co. to 120,000 Mcf/d from Humble Oil & Refining Co.’s natural gas production in the Garden City Field, and that this entitlement would be respected even though United later bettered its position in that field, especially in relation to Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. In our view the FPC acted within the permissible range of an administrative agency in both its…