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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**December 6, 2004**

**Electricity**

**Power Outage Affects Much of Huntsville, AL**\
Huntsville Utilities say they have a widespread power outage affecting
much of Huntsville. Much of University Drive, Oakwood Avenue & Pulaski
Pike, as well as Whitesburg Drive are without power. Huntsville
Utilities reports a large substation connected to the TVA grid went down
around 2:45 p.m. No estimate on the number of people without power or
how long it\'ll take to restore power.
<http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2656035&nav=1VPuTt50>

**Catawba Nuke Shut on Sunday**

In South Carolina, Duke\'s Catawba 1 nuke shut on December 5 due to a
moisture separator reheater high-level trip signal. A company
spokeswoman said the company hopes to have the unit back in service
soon.

Reuters, 1431 December 6, 2004

**PSEG Making Fixes at Salem Nukes**

In New Jersey, PSEG fixed a small reactor coolant leak at it Salem 1
nuke over the weekend. Both Salem units shut late last week due to an
oil spill in the Delaware River. The reactor coolant leak had nothing to
do with the oil spill.\
Reuters, 1431 December 6, 2004

**Fermi Shuts 24 Hours After Restart**\
NEWPORT, Mich. - Less than 24 hours after Detroit Edison Co. set an
internal record for getting Fermi II into service, the plant\'s nuclear
reactor automatically shut itself down yesterday because computers
detected a malfunction.\
Toledo Blade, December 5, 2004

**SCANA S.C. Summer Nuke Cut to 2 Percent Power**\
South Carolina-based energy company SCANA Corp took its 1,000-megawatt
Summer nuclear unit in South Carolina off line on Dec. 6 due to a steam
leak in a one-inch line on the non-nuclear side of the plant, a company
spokeswoman said Monday. The unit was not expected to off-line for more
than a few days. Immediately after discovering the leak, the company
shut the plant to isolate the leak and informed the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission of the event, the spokeswoman said, noting there
was no release of radiation.

Reuters, 1403 December 6, 2004

**Palo Verde Plant Still Not Ready to Come Back On-line**

The 1,270 MW Unit 3 at the Palo Verde nuclear plant in Arizona owned by
APS is still off-line early Monday despite expectations that it would
return to service over the weekend. A plant spokeswoman said the unit
was returning to service on Monday. The unit was taken down on Oct. 2
for a refueling outage which had been expected to last 50 to 60 days.

Reuters, 1431 December 6, 2004

**LaSalle Nuke in IL Powering Up**

In Illinois, Exelon increased power at its LaSalle 1 nuke following a
rod pattern adjustment and

surveillance testing. The unit was operating at 66 percent of capacity
early Monday, down from full power early Friday.\
Reuters, 1431 December 6, 2004

**Three Mile Island Reactor in Pennsylvania Reduces Production\
**Exelon Corp.\'s 802-megawatt Three Mile Island 1 reactor near
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, reduced production to 65 percent of capacity
late Friday to repair a pump-line steam leak. The reactor will maintain
its current production level until the repair is completed.\
Bloomberg News, 0840 December 6, 2004

**Ontario minister leaves door open on some coal-fired capacity**

The Ontario government has stated in no uncertain terms that, to cut air
pollution, it will shut down all 7,600 MW of the province\'s coal-fired
fleet by 2007. However, last week, Energy Minister Dwight Duncan said
that he would consider keeping several coal-fired units on standby in
case of a power shortage.\
<http://www.platts.com/Coal/News/9699407.xml?S=n>

**Petroleum**

**Hurricane Ivan Oil Production Shut-in Statistics**

Shut-in oil production is equivalent to 9.15% of daily production of oil
in GOM, which is approximately 1.7 million BOPD.  The 155,572 barrels
per day that is currently shut-in is approximately 0.79% of the 19.7
million barrels consumed in the U.S. each day. The cumulative shut-in
oil production for the period 9/11/04-12/06/04 is 33,829,806 bbls, which
is equivalent to 5.592% of the yearly production of oil in the GOM which
is approximately 605 million barrels.\
<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1206.htm>

**Delaware River Oil Spill Public Information Site**

[*http://www.piersystem.com/external/index.cfm?CID=864*](http://www.piersystem.com/external/index.cfm?CID=864)

**OPEC May Maintain Oil Quotas to Prevent Shortages**\
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is likely to keep
production close to a 25-year high to

prevent shortages during the U.S. winter, OPEC officials said. The
11-member group meets this week in Cairo to discuss production for the
first quarter of 2005.\
Bloomberg News, 0352 December 6, 2004

[***Opec Cairo Meeting Faces Rich and Diverse
Backdrop***](http://www.energyintel.com/DocumentDetail.asp?document_id=136722)\
*Last week\'s \$7 fall in oil prices and yesterday\'s terrorist attack
on a US target in Saudi Arabia have created a testing backdrop for the
upcoming Opec meeting in Cairo on Friday. Having pumped at near maximum
capacity for the past few months, Opec is facing a glutted crude oil
market, tumbling oil prices and growing internal calls to trim back
production.\
Energy Intelligence Briefing, December 06, 2004*

**Kuwait Calls on OPEC Members to Cut Overproduction\
**Kuwait called on fellow OPEC) members to stop exceeding their
production quotas as the price of crude oil falls on global markets\" We
are obviously concerned by the drop in prices,\" Oil Minister Sheikh
Ahmed Fahd al-Sabah told the press. \"We should take the matter very
seriously. If this decline continues as it has in the past 48 hours,
(OPEC) should stop all overproduction.\"

[*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1518&ncid=1518&e=1&u=/afp/20041204/bs_afp/opec_oil_quota_kuwait_041204201311*](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1518&ncid=1518&e=1&u=/afp/20041204/bs_afp/opec_oil_quota_kuwait_041204201311)

**Protesters Besiege Nigerian Oil Platforms\
**Hundreds of protesters have besieged two oil platforms run by Royal
Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. in Nigeria\'s southern
oil region, shutting down production of 90,000 barrels of oil a day,
company officials said Monday.
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&ncid=509&e=4&u=/ap/20041206/ap_on_bi_ge/nigeria_oil_protest_6>

**Nigeria Gives Villagers 3 days to Leave Oil Platforms**

Nigeria\'s Rivers State government has asked hundreds of villagers
occupying three oil platforms in a dispute over jobs to vacate them
within three days, a government spokesman said on Monday.

Reuters, 1323 December 6, 2004

**Statoil Says North Sea Fields Probably Won\'t Reopen This Week\
**Statoil ASA, Norway\'s largest oil company, said it probably won\'t be
able to reopen two North Sea fields shut by a leak until next week at
the earliest.\
Bloomberg News, 0952, December 6, 2004

***Colonial Pipeline Will Ration Shipments on U.S. Fuel Lines***

*Colonial Pipeline Co., which operates the world\'s biggest network of
petroleum-product pipelines, will*

*ration space on two lines carrying gasoline, heating oil and diesel
from Mississippi to North Carolina because of high demand.\
*Bloomberg News, 1202, December 6, 2004

**Natural Gas**

# Hurricane Ivan Natural Gas Production Shut-in Statistics

Shut-in gas production is equivalent to 4.87% of the daily production of
gas in the GOM, which is approximately 12.3 BCFPD.  The 599.25 MMCF per
day that is currently shut-in is approximately 0.99% of the 60.184 BCF
consumed in the U.S. each day. The cumulative shut-in gas production
9/11/04-12/06/04 is 134.129 BCF, which is equivalent to 3.014% of the
yearly production of gas in the GOM which is approximately 4.45 TCF.\
<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1206.htm>

**Other**

Nothing to report.

**Energy Prices**

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|                               | **Latest  | **\       | **\        |
|                               | (12       | Week      | Year Ago** |
|                               | /06/04)** | Ago**     |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 42.96     | 49.71     | 30.69      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 6.05      | 6.76      | 6.27       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
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| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
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> Source: Reuters

**This Week in Petroleum** from the Energy Information Administration
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