Southern California Gas Company Collection
Scope and Contents
The Southern California Gas Company (SCGC) Collection (1960-1966) contains legal documents from cases involving oil pipelines in Southern California. Specifically, cases involving Pemex (Mexico's petroleum company), and the Gulf Pacific Pipeline Company. SCGC was involved in the Pemex case, in which it unsuccessfully applied to the California Utilities Companies to purchase natural gas from Texas via a pipeline through Mexico from 1960-1962. During 1963-1966 the company was party to the Gulf Pacific Case, in which Gulf Pacific unsuccessfully applied to the Federal Power Commission to supply SCGC with natural gas via a pipeline from Texas. Material related to Pemex Case (6 boxes) includes California Public Utilities Commission transcripts (67 vols.); docket items (pleadings, briefs, decisions- 3 vols.); Exhibits (205); and lists of exhibits and witnesses. Gulf Pacific Case material (19 boxes) includes applications of Transwestern Pipeline, Gulf Pacific Pipeline, and El Paso Natural Gas, and related docket items; Consolidated Dockets: (pleadings, briefs, decisions, opinions); Federal Power Commission Transcripts (186 volumes); exhibits (898); and detailed transcript references by witnesses and counsel.
Dates
- 1960-1966
Creator
- Southern California Gas Company (Organization)
Extent
25 Linear Feet (25 boxes unprocessed)
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- Southern California Gas Company (Organization)
Source
- PetrĂ³leos Mexicanos (Organization)
- California Public Utilities Commission (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the Southern California Gas Company Collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Date
- 2020-05
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections Repository
University Library South -5039 (Fifth Floor)
1000 E. Victoria St.
Carson CA 90747
310-243-3895
archives@csudh.edu