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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**January 12, 2005**

**Electricity\
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**Southern\'s Vogtle 1 Reactor in Georgia Shuts Down (Update1)**

Southern Co.\'s 1,148-megawatt Vogtle 1 nuclear reactor in eastern
Georgia automatically shut yesterday because of a faulty relay. The
relay has been repaired and the reactor is beginning to return to
service.\
Bloomberg News, 0951 January 12, 2005

**Southern Ga. Hatch 1 Nuke Exits Outage, up to 19 Percent\
**Atlanta-based energy company Southern Co.\'s 924-megawatt unit 1 at
the Hatch nuclear station in Georgia exited a work outage and ramped up
to 19 percent of capacity by early Wednesday, the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission said in its power reactor status report. The unit
shut on Jan. 3 due to repair a water leak in the drywell.\
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7303532>

**Constellation's 454 MW High Desert Gas-fired Plant in CA Shut on Jan
11**

Reuters, 1447 January 12, 2005

**AES's 225 MW Huntington Beach 3 Gas-fired Plant in CA Shut on Jan 11**

Reuters, 1447 January 12, 2005

**LPGC's 235 MW La Paloma 4 Gas-fired Plant in CA Shut on Jan 11**

Reuters, 1447 January 12, 2005

**AES's 225 MW Huntington Beach 4 Gas-fired Plant in CA Shut on Jan 12**

Reuters, 1447 January 12, 2005

**Utah Intermountain 2 Power Unit Shut, Seen Back Soon**

Intermountain Power Agency\'s 855-megawatt unit 2 at the Intermountain
coal-fired station in Utah shut late on Jan. 11 to repair a tube leak, a
plant spokesman said Wednesday. The unit will likely return to service
within about 24-hours, the spokesman said.

Reuters, 1124 January 12, 2005

**OPG's 490 MW Nanticoke 1 Coal-fired Plant in Ontario Shut on Jan 12**

Reuters, 1447 January 12, 2005

**Petroleum**

**Calif. Rains Shut Gasoline Pipeline**

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners shut down the Valley\'s main source of
gasoline early Monday after torrential rains in California threatened
portions of its western pipeline, but the move shouldn\'t create
immediate shortages. The 20-inch Los Angeles-to-Phoenix pipeline carries
about 70 percent of the Valley\'s gasoline, jet fuel and diesel. The
remainder comes over an eight- to 12-inch pipeline from El Paso.
<http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0111pipeline11.html>

**Shell hikes Output to 65,000 b/d at Protest-hit Nigeria Stations**

Shell Wednesday said it had now restarted 65,000 b/d of crude output at
flow stations that were shut down five weeks ago after protests by
villagers in the south-east Rivers State disrupted output. Hundreds of
villagers from Kula community, including women and children, on Dec 5
seized flow stations operated by ChevronTexaco and Shell in a row over
local benefits and jobs, forcing the multinationals to shut in a total
of 120,000 b/d and briefly trapping more than 100 workers. A separate
protest in the Bayelsa Creek last Friday shut in an additional 8,000 b/d
at the Odeama Creek flow station when villagers attempted to seize the
facility because a power generator provided for them by Shell had broken
down.\
<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/4153560.xml?S=n>

# Statoil May Restart Some Snorre, Vigdis Output, Authority Says

Statoil ASA, Norway\'s biggest oil company, will be allowed to reopen
parts of two North Sea fields that have been shut since Nov. 28
following a gas leak, the country\'s Petroleum Safety Authority said.
Bloomberg News, 0834 January 12, 2005

# Natural Gas

**Freeport LNG Gets Approval to Build Gas Terminal, WSJ Reports**

Freeport LNG received approval yesterday to build the first new
liquefied natural-gas terminal in the U.S. in more than 20 years.\
Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2005

**Other News**

Nothing to report.

**Energy Prices**

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (1        | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /12/05)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 46.46     | 43.41     | 34.92      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 5.89      | 5.84      | 6.29       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+

> Source: Reuters

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