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

**Office of Electricity and\
Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**March 30, 2005**

**Electricity**

**Glendale, CA Power Outage Affects 24,000 Households**

A power outage swept across a large portion of Glendale, CA on Tuesday
that affected nearly 24,000 households in the region. This was the
second power outage in less than two weeks for the area. It was most
likely triggered by a transformer malfunction at the Grayson Power
Plant. The outage occurred in the early afternoon and lasted
approximately three hours.

Los Angeles Daily News,
<http://www.dailynews.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,200%257E20946%257E2788668,00.html>

**Power Outage in Dover, NH Affects 10,000 homes**

Storms in the region likely caused the outage that affected much of
Middleton, Wakefield, Farmington, and New Durham counties. The outage
occurred early Tuesday and power was restored to most customers later
the same morning.

Fosters Online, Dover, New Hampshire,
<http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050329/NEWS03/50329091>

**Nuclear Plant Hires Worker with False Documents, IA**

U.S. Authorities say a worker hired to perform pipe insulation at the
Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Palo, Iowa was a Mexican national using
false documents to gain employment. The worker was hired by a
subcontractor. Discrepancies were discovered with the employee's
paperwork during a security check.

DHS/IAIP Report,
<http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=31&content=4252>

**PNM's 506 MW Coal Fired San Juan Unit 4 Will Shut for Three Weeks,
NM**

The unit was taken offline to repair a ruptured circulating water pipe
on March 21 and will remain closed for a further three weeks. The San
Juan power station is near Farmington, NM.

Reuters 1420, March 30, 2005

**Exelon's 1,134MW Limerick Unit 2 Back to Full Power, PA**

The unit reached full power early Wednesday after being reduced to 60
percent power for a rod pattern adjustment.

Reuters 0715, March 30, 2005

**Petroleum**

**Nigerian Oil Strike Set for April 11**

Nigerian oil unions have planned a warning strike for April 11^th^ that
is scheduled to last three days. The strike is not expected to interrupt
oil supplies. More talks are expected on Monday.

Reuter 1208, March 30, 2005

**Alaskan authorities Question BP on Spill Reporting**

Authorities in Alaska are questioning BP Exploration Alaska and its
contractor regarding what appears to be a pattern of non-compliance with
oil spill reporting procedures. Recent incidents include two spills of
drilling fluids in late 2003 and 2004 that exceeded the minimum volume
for reporting to the state but were not reported. Fluids were contained
in both instances.

Platts, March 30, 2005,
<http://www.platts.com/headlines.xml?sub=HOME&p=HOME/News>

**Labor Unions Reach Deal with U.S. Refiners**

PACE union negotiators agreed to a three year extension of a basic labor
agreement with U.S. refiners this week. The agreement includes pay
increases and bonuses for employees and extends a compact that expires
in January 2006. The parties were in talks for two weeks to come to the
agreement. PACE represents 30,000 refinery workers employed at nearly
half of the nation's refineries.

Reuters 1544, March 30, 2005

**Natural Gas**

**BayCorp Announces Completion of Natural Gas Production Well**

BayCorp Holdings, Ltd. announced today that it has completed the second
natural gas production well in Nacagdoches County, Texas under an
agreement with Sonerra Resources Corporation. The well went into
production on March 3 and is currently producing at a rate of 1.9
million cubic feet per day.

Business Wire, <http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050330/305433.html?.v=1>

**Offshore Natural Gas Leak Repaired**

Columbia Gulf said a leak on a 20-inch pipeline of the coast of
Louisiana has been repaired. The leak caused production from eight
offshore platforms to shut on March 23.

Bloomberg News 1107, March 30, 2005

Perry, Maine Rejects LNG Plan

Oil Daily, March 30, 2005

**Other News**

Nothing to Report.

**Energy Prices**

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (03       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /30/05)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 53.96     | 49.43     | 36.15      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 7.18      | 7.11      | 5.40       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+

> Source: Reuters
>
> \*\*\*Note: Beginning on Wednesday of last week (March 23), the
> Reuters spot price for WTI was much less than what other sources
> reported. Although it is clear that the price of crude dropped on
> Wednesday following the release by EIA of larger than expected
> petroleum stock numbers, other sources put the drop in the range of
> \$2.00 to \$5.25 whereas Reuters reported a price drop for WTI crude
> oil of about \$6.50. On March 29^th^ the price differential appears to
> have closed with respect to the spot prices by Reuters and Bloomberg
> (\$54.26 and \$54.30 respectively).

**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)

Updated on Wednesdays

**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)

Updated after 1:00pm (Eastern time) on Wednesdays

**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)

Updated after 2:00 pm (Eastern time) on Thursdays

**ENSEC threat awareness blog site** from Energy Assurance

[*http://ensec.blogspot.com*](http://ensec.blogspot.com/)