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ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY

November 21, 2003

**Electricity**

**Braidwood 2 Nuke up to 90% Power**

Excelon's Nuclear 1120-1150 MW Braidwood 2 was up to 90% of its power
capacity by early Friday.

Source: Reuters, 0705 21 Nov 2003

**Braidwood 2 Unit Records Fastest PWR Refueling**

Exelon\'s Braidwood-2 claimed a U.S. record for quickest PWR refueling.
The 15-day, 14-hour and 57-minute refueling, which ended Nov. 19, also
is the second shortest for all U.S. LWRs, Exelon Nuclear said.
Braidwood-2\'s outage was 48 minutes shorter than that of the previous
PWR recordholder. (Of course the record may be somewhat tainted, since
just after finishing the refueling and ramping up power on Wednesday,
the plant had to shut back down to fix a turbine leak. See story from
yesterday's Energy Assurance Daily and story above.)

<http://www.platts.com/stories/nuclear1.html>

**Perry 1 Nuke up to 67% Power**

FirstEnergy's Perry 1 Nuclear unit ramped back up to 67% power capacity
today after cutting output yesterday for fuel testing for a possible
fuel defect.

Source: Bloomberg, 0837 21 Nov 2003

**Petroleum**

**Mexico\'s Gulf Coast Crude Oil Loading Ports Reopened**

Mexico\'s three main crude oil loading ports reopened Friday after being
closed for two days by poor weather conditions in the Gulf of Mexico.
Port officials said Pajaritos, Dos Bocas,, and Cayo Arcas were all open.
Dos Bocas had closed at midnight, Tuesday, while Pajaritos and the
offshore loading terminal at Cayo Arcas closed early Wednesday. The
three ports handle most of the 1.86 million barrels a day of crude oil
that state-owned oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos (PEM.YY), or Pemex,
exports. Pemex also exports some crude from the Pacific coast port of
Salina Cruz, which was also open Friday.

[*http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20031121_003935,00.html?mod=oil%2Dcoa%2Doie*](http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20031121_003935,00.html?mod=oil-coa-oie)

**Chevron Halts Additional 23,000 bpd of Oil Production in Nigeria**\
U.S. oil major ChevronTexaco said on Friday it had shut in 23,000
barrels per day (bpd) of oil and evacuated four platforms in
southeastern Nigeria after a hostage incident. The company said in a
statement that two of its staff were still being held by ethnic Ijaw
militants, after 16 others were rescued by security forces on Thursday
at the offshore Middleton and Pennington oil platforms. The militants,
who disrupted some 40 percent of Nigeria\'s oil output in a March
rebellion, seized the platforms in the swamps of the Niger delta on
Wednesday. "Production of 23,000 bpd from Middleton, Pennington, North
Apoi and Funiwa has been shut in and personnel evacuated until the
situation returns to normal,\" the statement said. The California-based
company had said on Wednesday that just 300 bpd of oil output was
affected by the kidnaping incident. An additional 140,000 bpd of
ChevronTexaco\'s onshore oil production in the Niger delta has been shut
off since March, when scores were killed in the Ijaws\' March rebellion.
ChevronTexaco still pumps around 330,000 bpd from its offshore wells,
out of total Nigerian production of slightly over two million bpd.
<http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/031121/energy_nigeria_kidnap_1.html>
<http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/031121/0615000266_2.html>

**Natural Gas**

Nothing to report.

**Other News**

**Energy Bill Blocked by Filibuster**

![](media/image3.png){width="1.0416666666666666e-2in"
height="1.0416666666666666e-2in"}On a 57-40 vote, supporters of the bill
failed by three votes to cut off debate on the legislation. They needed
60 votes under the Senate\'s rules to close debate on the bill. The
House passed the legislation earlier this week. Republican Senate leader
Bill Frist, who was obligated to change his vote and cast it with the
majority so the measure can be brought up again, vowed not to abandon
the legislation. But he could not say when it would be back for another
try.
[*http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/21/energy.congress.ap/index.html*](http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/21/energy.congress.ap/index.html)

<http://biz.yahoo.com/rm/031121/energy_congress_5.html>

**Energy Prices**

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (11       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /21/03)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 32.26     | 32.38     | 26.93      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 4.15      | 4.36      | 4.28       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+

> Source: Bloomberg, Reuters, Wall Street Journal

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

[*http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp*](http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp)

Last Updated on November 19, 2003

**Natural Gas Weekly Update** from EIA

[*http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngw/ngupdate.asp*](http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngw/ngupdate.asp)

Last Updated on November 20, 2003

**Weekly Petroleum Status Report** from EIA**\
**[*http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/wpsr.html*](http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/wpsr.html)

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