![](media/image1.jpeg){width="8.5in" height="3.5027777777777778in"}U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**November 8, 2004**

**Electricity**

**Power Back On In Columbia Heights, Minnesota**\
A spokesman for Xcel Energy says power was knocked out to about
20-thousand customers in the northern Twin Cities suburb after a
squirrel got into a substation and caused a short circuit. Crews were
able to restore power in about 40 minutes.\
<http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_311123348.html>

**Update -- New York Hit with High Winds and Outages Friday**\
At the height of it, high winds and rain knocked out power to about
30,000 New York residents.\
[Forecast Center](http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/weather/).
<http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=102991>

**Update -- Winds Cut Power to 26,703 homes in Connecticut Friday**\
Statewide, the peak of the outage was at 6 p.m. All but 8,880 customers
had power restored by 9 p.m., and the rest were expected to have power
again by morning, said Frank Poirot, a spokesman for the utility.\
<http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=12009>

**AES\' Calif. Redondo 7 & 8 Power Plants Shut\
**Virginia-based global energy company AES Corp.\'s Redondo natural
gas-fired units 7 and 8 both shut by early Monday for unplanned reasons,
a report by the California Independent System Operator said. Both units
were available for service on Friday. The 1,334 MW Redondo station is
located in Redondo Beach about 20 miles south of Los Angeles. Unit 7 and
8 are about 493 MW and 486 MW, respectively.

Reuters, 1050 November 8, 2004

**Susquehanna Nuclear Unit in Pennsylvania Reduces Production**

PPL Corp.\'s 1,115-megawatt Susquehanna Unit 1 Nuclear generating
station in Berwick Pennsylvania reduced output to 75 percent of capacity
on Sunday to repair a condensate pump. According to a representative of
the company, the unit will operate at the reduced rate until the repairs
are completed. The company did not indicate when the unit would be
returned to full capacity.

Bloomberg 10:46, November 8, 2004

**Cooper Nuclear Power Plant in Nebraska Starts Up Following Repair
Work**

The 780 MW Cooper nuclear generating station of the Nebraska Public
Power District began to return to service on Sunday following a
three-week shutdown to perform turbine-blade repairs. The single reactor
at the facility located in Brownsville, Nebraska was operating at 20
percent capacity by Monday morning and is expected to return to full
capacity later in the week.

Bloomberg 10:46, November 8, 2004

**Salem Nuclear Units 1 and 2 in New Jersey Reduce Production**

Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.\'s Salem 1 and 2 nuclear reactors
in southern New Jersey reduced output at the request of the PJM grid
operator as the result of solar magnetic disturbances that can introduce
ground currents that can overheat and damage electrical equipment. The
reduction in output compensates for potential increases in ground
current. The 1,096-MW Unit 1 is operating at 77 percent of capacity and
the output of the 1,092-MW Unit 2 is at 78 percent of Capacity.

Bloomberg 08:51, November 8, 2004

**Petroleum**

**Hurricane Ivan Oil Production Shut-in Statistics**

Shut-in oil production is equivalent to 12.49% of daily production of
oil in GOM, which is approximately 1.7 million BOPD.  The 212,258
barrels per day that is currently shut-in is approximately 1.08% of the
19.7 million barrels consumed in the U.S. each day. The cumulative
shut-in oil production for the period 9/11/04-11/8/04 is 28,489,861
bbls, which is equivalent to 4.709% of the yearly production of oil in
the GOM, which is approximately 605 million barrels.\
<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1108.htm>

**Pacific Northwest Refinery has Fire**

West Coast trading sources tell OPIS that an FCC unit at the 120,000
b/d\
Tesoro Anacortes was been taken down due to fire.\
OPIS Price Watch Alert, 1218 November 8, 2004

**Western Refining Texas Gasoline Unit Down until Tuesday**

Western Refining has shut the 29,500-barrels-per-day gasoline-making
fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) at its El Paso, Texas, refinery for
unscheduled repairs that will last until Tuesday, according to a filing
with Texas regulators on Monday. Regulators said the FCC unit at the
107,000-bpd refinery was taken down on Saturday to carry out repair work
to a hole detected \"in or around the catalyst dump valve\" at the unit.
\"The event is tentatively estimated to last approximately 72 hours,\"
the regulators said, anticipating a restart early on Tuesday.\
Reuters, 0739 November 8, 2004

**Shell Deer Park Restarts Cat Cracker\
**Shell Oil Co.\'s joint venture Deer Park Refining LP was restarting a
gasoline-producing catalytic cracking unit at its 340,000-barrel per day
(bpd) refinery in Deer Park, Texas, on Monday, according to a filing
with Texas environmental regulators. The restart began on Monday morning
and could take until Friday morning, according to the filing with the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Deer Park Refining was
replacing two high-pressure distillate pumps at the refinery and had
warned in a previous commission filing that a failure in the start-up of
the new pumps could lead to a shutdown of the cat cracker. Reuters, 1424
November 8, 2004

**Premcor in process of receiving 700,000 bbl of SPR crude: DOE**

A batch of 700,000 bbl of sweet crude from the US Strategic Petroleum
Reserve is now being delivered to Premcor\'s refinery in Memphis,
Tennessee, the Department of Energy said Friday. In a notice on its
website, DOE said the crude was being shipped to Memphis between Nov 3-7
via Premcor\'s tanks at Sugarland Terminal and into the Capline
pipeline. It is the second batch of SPR crude delivered to the 190,000
b/d Memphis refinery in the aftermath of supply shortages created when
Hurricane Ivan disrupted crude production in the Gulf of Mexico. Premcor
took 500,000 bbl of SPR crude in early October. The DOE, responding to
the supply shortages after Ivan, agreed to loan 5.4-mil bbl of SPR crude
to five refiners. Other than Premcor, ConocoPhillips (1.5-mil bbl),
Shell Trading (1.4-mil bbl), Astra Oil (1-mil bbl), and Placid Refining
(300,000 bbl) also received crude.
<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/3050352.xml?S=n>

**Grounded Crude Oil Tanker Blocks Suez Canal**

News of a grounded 150,000mt crude oil tanker blocking the Suez Canal
has had little influence on prices. The Liberian-flagged tanker, Tropic
Brilliance, ran aground Saturday after encountering problems with its
steering mechanism, creating a backlog of ships waiting to pass,
Egyptian port agents said.
<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/4750640.xml?S=n>

**Oil Down as Supply Fears Ease, Funds Exit**\
Oil prices dropped further from record highs on Monday as easing concern
about winter supplies prompted big-money hedge funds to switch money
away from oil and into other financial markets. U.S. light crude tumbled
93 cents to \$48.68 a barrel, nearly \$7 below the all-time peak at
\$55.67 struck on Oct 25. London Brent crude was down 92 cents at
\$45.50 a barrel.\
<http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/041108/markets_oil_6.html>

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# Natural Gas

**Hurricane Ivan Natural Gas Production Shut-in Statistics**

Shut-in gas production is equivalent to 6.03% of the daily production of
gas in the GOM, which is approximately 12.3 BCFPD.  The 741.56 MMCF per
day that is currently shut-in is approximately 1.23% of the 60.184 BCF
consumed in the U.S. each day. The cumulative shut-in gas production
9/11/04-11/8/04 is 115.467 BCF, which is equivalent to 2.595% of the
yearly production of gas in the GOM, which is approximately 4.45 TCF.\
<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1108.htm>

**Trunkline Gas Pipeline in Texas Open After Rupture Is Repaired**

Trunkline Gas Co. confirmed emergency repairs were completed on the
pipeline on Friday but that the line would be operating at reduced
capacity downstream of the Cypress compressor station until further
notice. The emergency repairs to a section of pipeline near Houston that
ruptured on November 3. The affected portion of the line runs between
Cypress station and the GV 32 point and will operate at 75 percent of
capacity (250 million cubic feet a day) until repairs are complete.
Trunkline indicated that necessary work should be complete \`\`within
the next few weeks.\'\' The repair work requires shutting in all
receipts and deliveries in the affected area between Cypress as GV 32.\
Bloomberg 10:15, November 8, 2004

**US MMS to Restrict US Gulf Leasing around Proposed LNG Terminal**

Offshore oil and natural gas production will be restricted around
ChevronTexaco\'s proposed Port Pelican liquefied natural gas terminal in
the Gulf of Mexico, the US Minerals Management Service said Friday. In
its notice for Central Gulf Lease Sale 194, the agency said it will
attach a stipulation to lease blocks 139 and 140 barring exploration and
development in a 500-meter \"safety zone\" around Port Pelican, and
would establish an 800-meter \"exclusion area\" for the seabed and water
column surrounding \"the center point\" of Port Pelican that can only be
accessed through directional drilling or comparable techniques. The
stipulation will take effect once construction of Port Pelican begins,
and will be reduced to 500 meters after the LNG facility is
\"emplaced.\" A number of industry representatives have suggested it
would be prohibitively expensive to access offshore resources in the
exclusion zone through horizontal drilling.

[http://www.platts.com/Natural%20Gas/News/3626319.xml?S=nhttp://www.platts.com/Natural%20Gas/News/3626319.xml?S=n](http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/3626319.xml?S=nhttp://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/3626319.xml?S=n)

**Other News**

Nothing to report.

**Energy Prices**

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (11       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /08/04)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 49.10     | 50.10     | 30.73      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 6.62      | 6.98      | 4.48       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+

> Source: Reuters

**This Week in Petroleum** from the Energy Information Administration
(EIA)

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Updated on Wednesdays

**Weekly Petroleum Status Report** from EIA**\
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**Natural Gas Weekly Update** from EIA

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