Natural Gas Company Research Articles

Federal Regulation of the Uses of Natural Gas

The Natural Gas Act of 1938, as amended in 1942, requires natural-gas companies subject to the act to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Power Commission before transporting or selling natural gas in interstate commerce, as well as before acquiring, constructing, or extending facilities for those purposes. The issuance of such certificates is a conventional function of public-utility regulatory bodies, and the Commission has administered it in a conventional manner. The tests developed by the Commission to determine the “public convenience and necessity,” relating primarily to the adequacy of natural gas reserves, physical facilities, financial resources, and market demand, are commonplace standards, framed in the public-utility tradition to fit the economic and physical characteristics of the natural-gas industry. The real importance of the certificate power under the Natural Gas Act lies in the fact that issues raised in proceedings pursuant to it have transcended the scope of these standards, involving no less than an attempt to redefine in the broadest terms the public interest in respect to natural gas.

State Licensing of Interstate Gas Company: Constitutional Law. Regulation of Interstate Commerce. Michigan Court Permits State to Require Certificate of Convenience and Necessity of Interstate Natural Gas Company

State Licensing of Interstate Gas Company: Constitutional Law. Regulation of Interstate Commerce. Michigan Court Permits State to Require Certificate of Convenience and Necessity of Interstate Natural Gas Company

Training Program for Corrosion Technicians

It is proposed that a class of corrosion workers classed as Technicians can enable corrosion engineers to cover more lines at less expense than is otherwise possible, particularly if the engineer must operate from a central point while the technicians can be located over the area involved. The training program used, methods taught, and the equipment furnished these personnel by the Oklahoma Natural Gas Company are discussed. A summary of the work done by the men that were trained in June and July, 1949, is given.

Our Experience With the Underground Storage of Gas (The Peoples Natural Gas Company): GEOLOGICAL NOTES

Our Experience With the Underground Storage of Gas (The Peoples Natural Gas Company): GEOLOGICAL NOTES

A Fair Rate of Return for a Natural Gas Company

A Fair Rate of Return for a Natural Gas Company

Interstate Commerce. Control by States. Right of Interstate Natural Gas Company Supplying Gas to Local Distributing Companies to Enjoin Enforcement by State Commissions of Confiscatory Rates to Consumers

Interstate Commerce. Control by States. Right of Interstate Natural Gas Company Supplying Gas to Local Distributing Companies to Enjoin Enforcement by State Commissions of Confiscatory Rates to Consumers

Discrimination by a Natural Gas Company

Discrimination by a Natural Gas Company

Note on a very deep well near McDonald, Pennsylvania

Location and Depth of Well To Pennsylvania belongs the honor of the deepest boring in America. A well on the land of R. A. Geary, about 5 miles northwest from the town of McDonald, near the line between Allegheny and Washington counties, has now attained a depth of 6,052 feet. 2 This hole is being drilled by “The People’s Natural Gas Company,” a former subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company, of which Mr. John 6 . Pew, of Pittsburgh, is president and L. F. Barger general superintendent, and it is through their courtesy and that of Mr. J. B. Corrin, assistant superintendent of the Hope Natural Gas Company, that the writer was given access to the geologic data developed by the boring. Mr. Pew has chosen for the location of this deep well test the summit of the Condor dome, a structural feature in the rocks described in the Burgettstown-Carnegie Folio . . .