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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**January 10, 2005**

**Electricity**

**Over 100, 000 Still Without Power in Ohio**

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# Repair Teams Restoring Power Across Kansas

Westar Energy Inc. repair teams have cut the number of customers without
power down to 25,700 as of Monday morning, but the utility is cautioning
that it could still be Wednesday or Thursday before all power is
restored.\
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**CMS Energy\'s Palisades Reactor in Michigan Shuts Down**\
CMS Energy Corp.\'s 730-megawatt Palisades 1 nuclear reactor in
southeast Michigan was manually shut yesterday because of a fault in the
condenser system.\
Bloomberg news, 1002 January 10, 2005

**FPL's Turkey Point 3 Nuke Exits Outage**

In Florida, FPL\'s Turkey Point 3 nuke exited an outage and ramped up to
full power by early Monday, up from 1 percent on Friday. The unit shut
on Dec. 28 due to a leak in the turbine plant cooling water system.
Reuters, 1339 January 10, 2005

**CMS's 789 MW Palisades Nuke in MI Shut Jan 9**

In Michigan, the Nuclear Management Co. shut CMS\' Palisades nuke on
Jan. 9 due to lowering main condenser vacuum. A spokeswoman for the
operator said engineers were investigating the cause but could not say
when the unit would likely return to service.\
Reuters, 1339 January 10, 2005

**OPG's 516 MW Pickering 7 Nuke Unit in Ontario Shut Jan 10**

OPG shut the Pickering 7 nuke for a short-term outage to repair the
exciter on the generator.

Reuters, 1339 January 10, 2005

**OPG's 490 MW Nanticoke 6 Coal-fired Unit in Ontario Shut Jan 10**\
Reuters, 1339 January 10, 2005

**Bruce' 825 MW Bruce 3 Nuke Unit in Ontario Shut Jan 10**\
Reuters, 1339 January 10, 2005

**SCE's 450 MW Big Creek Hydro-powered Unit in CA Shut Jan 10**\
Reuters, 1335 January 10, 2005

**NRG/Dynergy's 335 MW El Segundo 3 Gas-fired Unit in CA Shut Jan 10**\
Reuters, 1335 January 10, 2005

**LPGC's 235 MW La Paloma 4 Gas-fired Unit in CA Shut Jan 7**\
Reuters, 1335 January 10, 2005

**Reliant's 741 MW Ormond Beach 1 Gas-fired Unit in CA Shut Jan 10**\
Reuters, 1335 January 10, 2005

**Duke Calif. Moss Landing 6 & 7 Power Units Shut**

North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corp.\'s 750-megawatt units 6 and 7 at
the Moss Landing natural gas-fired power station in California shut over
the weekend due to water damage to some electrical equipment caused by a
rainstorm battering Southern California, a company spokesman said
Monday.\
Reuters, 1200 January 10, 2005

**APS's NM Four Corners 4 & 5 Power Units Back**

Arizona Public Service Co.\'s 740-megawatt units 4 and 5 at the Four
Corners coal-fired power station in New Mexico returned to service over
the weekend, a spokeswoman at the electric utility said Monday. Units 4
and 5 at Four Corners shut for tube leak repairs by Jan. 4.

Reuters, 0931 January 10, 2005

**TXU's Texas Martin Lake 2 Power Unit Shut, Seen Back Soon**

Dallas-based energy company TXU Corp.\'s 750-megawatt unit 2 at the
Martin Lake coal-fired power station in Texas shut on about Jan. 8-9 to
repair a boiler tube leak, and will likely exit the outage on about Jan.
10, the company told Texas regulators in a couple of reports.

Reuters, 0837 January 10, 2005

**Petroleum**

**Shell to Sell Bakersfield refinery to Flying J**\
With just under 80 days left before a shutdown date, Shell announced a
deal to sell its 70,000 b/d Bakersfield, California refinery to Flying
J.\
OPIS Price Watch Alert, 1121 January 10, 2005

**Houston Ship Traffic Resumes, U.S. Coast Guard Says**\
Tanker traffic on the Houston Ship Channel, part of the largest U.S.
petroleum port, resumed at about 8:25 a.m. local time after dense fog
halted navigation last night, the U.S. Coast Guard said. About 25
tankers, container ships and other large vessels were waiting to enter
the channel as of 10:41 a.m.\
Bloomberg News, 1159 January 110, 2005

# Fire Over Weekend at ConocoPhillips 152,000 bpd Borger Complex

So far the fire at the fractionator Sunday (which shut it down) has had
little impact on refined products markets.

OPIS Price Watch Alert, 1219 January 10, 2005

**Iraq Cancels Dec Term Kirkuk Lifting Commitments: Agents**

Iraq has cancelled its December Kirkuk crude term contract commitments
with lifters because of ongoing sabotage-related disruptions to crude
flows to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, shipping agents said
Monday. \"All loadings have been cancelled,\" a shipping agent said.
\"They \[the vessels\] have been told to go home.\" Iraq\'s Kirkuk crude
exports to Ceyhan stopped more than three weeks ago after a string of
attacks from Dec 17-18 hit key infrastructure sites along the northern
pipeline network.

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# 

**Saudis Cut February Oil Shipments to Refiners, Reuters Says**

Saudi Arabia cut the amount of crude oil allocated for February
shipments to companies that operate global refining systems, compared
with supplies for January, Reuters reported, citing unidentified
traders.\
Bloomberg News, 1335 January 10, 2005

# 

# Crude Oil Rises to 6-Week High as Storms Cut North Sea Output

Crude oil rose to a six-week high after storms in the North Sea forced
Royal Dutch/Shell Group and

Statoil ASA to reduce Norwegian output by 12 percent. Shell stopped
pumping the equivalent of 140,000 barrels of oil a day at the Draugen
field off central Norway on Jan. 7 and wind is preventing repairs to a
loading hose.\
Bloomberg News, 1206 January 10, 2005

# Natural Gas

# Coast Guard Suspends Review Of BHP\'s Offshore LNG Project

BHP Billiton\'s plan to build a A\$600 million (\$454 million) liquefied
natural gas import terminal off the coast of California faces a delay
after the U.S. Coast Guard suspended its review of the plan to seek more
information, the West Australian said.

Bloomberg News, 0703 January 9, 2005

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**ChevronTexaco Receives Key Permit for Baja California LNG Terminal**\
ChevronTexaco de Mexico said Thursday that it has been awarded a permit
from Mexico\'s Regulatory Energy Commission (CRE) for a proposed
liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal off the coast of Baja
California, Mexico. The move puts the company one step closer to its
goal of delivering natural gas to Mexico and the U.S. West Coast.\
Natural Gas Intelligence, January 7, 2005
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**Other News**

Nothing to report.

**Energy Prices**

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|                               | (1        | Ago**     | Ago**      |
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| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 45.31     | 41.51     | 34.38      |
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| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
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| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
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| **NATURAL GAS**               | 6.21      | 6.02      | 6.91       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
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