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FINDINGS OF FACT
Some facts are stipulated and are so found. The stipulation
of facts, with accompanying exhibits, is incorporated herein by
this reference.
Principal Place of Business
At the time the petition was filed, Clajon’s principal place
of business was in San Antonio, Texas.
Natural Gas Production Process
Natural gas is extracted from the earth through gas wells.
It leaves the earth at the wellhead and passes into flow lines.
The flow lines carry the gas to a separator located at the well
site or to a central production facility (which serves two or
more wells), where, among other things, oil, water, and sand are
removed from the gas. The gas next flows to a meter installation
for measurement and then enters a gathering system.
A gathering system is a system of interconnected
subterranean pipelines and related facilities, including
compression stations and metering installations, that aggregates
gas from multiple wells for delivery to a transmission line or a
gas processing plant. A gathering system’s smaller diameter
pipelines, sometimes called feeder lines or lateral lines,
connect individual wells or one or more central production
facilities to larger diameter lateral lines or trunk lines that
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