Legal Opinion
OXY USA, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 29, 1995No. Nos. 94-1061, 94-1132, 94-1402, 94-1430, 94-1466, 94-1476 and 94-1487PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge BUCKLEY.
BUCKLEY, Circuit Judge:
The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (“TAPS”) provides the sole means of shipping petroleum produced from the North Slope of Alaska south to the Port of Valdez, Alaska. Because there are multiple shippers and only a single pipeline, TAPS commingles the various shippers’ petroleum. Necessity dictates that TAPS return to shippers a portion of that “common stream” at Valdez, regardless of whether their contributions were more or less valuable than the resulting mixture. The TAPS “Quality Bank” is an accounting arrangement…
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