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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**December 10, 2004**

**Electricity**

**AES's 275 MW Alamitos 5 Gas-fired Unit Shut Down Friday**\
Reuters, 1352 December 10, 2004

**Reliant's 775 MW Ormond Beach 2 Gas-fired Unit Shut Down Friday**\
Reuters, 1352 December 10, 2004

**PA Three Mile Island 1 Nuke Back at Full Power**

AmerGen Energy Co.\'s 786-megawatt Three Mile Island 1 nuclear unit in
Pennsylvania was back at full power on Friday morning after repairs to a
steam leak were completed, a plant spokesman said. The unit had been
reduced to 22 percent power on Thursday afternoon. Operators determined
the problem was caused by a faulty cap on a tubing instrument and made
repairs.

Reuters, 1315 December 10, 2004

**SCANA's SC Summer Nuke up to 98 Percent Power**

South Carolina-based SCANA Corp.\'s 1,000-megawatt Summer nuclear unit
in South Carolina ramped up to 98 percent of capacity by early Friday,
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in its power reactor status
report. On Thursday, the unit was operating at 3 percent of capacity. On
Dec. 6, the company took the unit off line but left the reactor in a
critical state at about 2 percent of capacity to fix a steam leak in a
one-inch line on the non-nuclear side of the plant.

Reuters, 0717 December 10, 2004

**Petroleum**

**Olympic Pipeline Near Tesoro's Anacortes, WA Refinery Damaged**

The mainline pump was damaged earlier this week and may take four or
five days to repair.\
OPIS Price Watch Alert, 1227 December 10, 2004

**Kinder Morgan Colton, CA to Phoenix, AZ Pipeline Closed**\
A train collision force Kinder Morgan to shut the 20 inch pipeline.

OPIS Price Watch Alert, 1227 December 10, 2004

**Houston Ship Channel and the Bolivar Ferry Reopened after Collision**

Two tugboats collided in the Houston shipping channel at 415 am on
Friday, spilling fuel into the waterway. The channel was reopened by
mid-morning but the Intracoastal Waterway remained closed, Coast Guard
Petty Officer Andrew Kendrick said. About 43,000 gallons of gasoline
were spilled, Kendrick said. No serious injuries were reported. The Ship
Channel was closed between lights 26 and 30 until 8:30 a.m. but is now
open, Wine said. He said a section of Bolivar Road and the Bolivar Ferry
was closed at 7:30 a.m. Houston TranStar reported the ferry re-opened at
3:30 p.m.
[*http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2941039*](http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2941039)\
Reuters, 1141 December 10, 2004

[**Opec Cuts Oil Production In Excess Of Output
Ceiling**](http://www.energyintel.com/DocumentDetail.asp?document_id=137171)\
OPEC is set to cut production from Jan. 1 to slow the build in heavy
sour oil supply and try to put a floor under wobbly oil prices, a trim
that will \-- if fully implemented \-- do away with most of the excess
production above the organization\'s 27 million barrel per day official
output ceiling. The decision made Friday at the OPEC ministerial summit
in Cairo was to cut output by 1 million b/d, with Saudi Arabia likely
accounting for half of that volume.\
Energy Intelligence Briefing, December 10, 2004

**Iraq Resumes Pumping Kirkuk Crude to Ceyhan, Turkey**

Pipeline shipments to Ceyhan had been disrupted since late last month
after a series of attacks against the northern pipeline network.

<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/2930170.xml?S=n>

**Oil Prices Fall Despite OPEC Output Cut**\
Oil prices fell to four-month lows on Friday even though the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries moved to curb production
above its official 27 million barrel-per-day output ceiling. At the New
York Mercantile Exchange, crude oil futures for January delivery CLF5\>
settled down \$1.82, or 4.3 percent, at \$40.71 a barrel after hitting a
fresh four-month low of \$40.25. Oil prices also took pressure from a
resumption of oil flows through Iraq\'s northern pipeline to the Turkish
port of Ceyhan after a 12-day halt. Shippers said the flows of Kirkuk
crude resumed at about 450,000 bpd.
<http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/041210/markets_usa_commodities_1.html>

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# Natural Gas

Nothing to report.

**Other News**

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**Energy Prices**

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|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (12       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /10/04)** |           |            |
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| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 40.60     | 42.56     | 30.68      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
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| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 6.04      | 6.04      | 6.27       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
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| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
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> Source: Reuters

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