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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**February 14, 2005**

**Electricity**

**Juveniles Knock Out Power to 16,000 Ohio Edison Customers on Sunday**

Three runaway juveniles crashed into several electrical lines at a
substation in Elyria, Ohio, at about 5:00pm, knocking out power to
16,000 customers. Most power was restored within 20 minutes.

The Morning Journal, February 13, 2005
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13951095&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46371&rfi=6>

**Utah Intermountain 2 power unit shut**

Intermountain Power Agency\'s 820-megawatt unit 2 at the Intermountain
coal-fired power station in Utah shut late Sunday. The 1,640 MW
Intermountain station is located near the town of Lynndyl in Millard
County about 120 miles south-southwest of Salt Lake City.

Reuters 0755, February 14, 2005

**Entergy Mississippi Grand Gulf Nuke Exits Outage**

New Orleans-based energy company Entergy Corp.\'s 1,263-megawatt Grand
Gulf nuclear station in Mississippi exited an outage and ramped up to 19
percent of capacity by early Monday. The unit shut on Feb. 11 due to the
loss of an electrical bus.

Reuters 0743, February 14, 2005

**Calpine about to Test New 600-MW Combined-Cycle Plant in California\
**Source: Business Wire and Industrialinfo.com, February 10, 2005
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**Requirement for Armed Guards at Nuke Plants Delayed for at Least One
Year**

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission memo released Wednesday February 9^th^
says a recommendation for requiring armed guards at nuclear power plants
will not be presented to the commissioners until next year.\
Source: The Harrisburg Patriot, February 11, 2005
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**Peach Bottom 3 Nuke Plant Production up to 100%\
**Bloomberg News, 0714, February 14, 2005

**Petroleum**

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

Shut-in oil production is equivalent to 7.42% of daily production of oil
in the GOM, which is approximately 1.7 million barrels of oil per day
(BOPD).  The 126,090 BOPD currently shut-in is approximately 0.64% of
the 19.7 million barrels consumed in the U.S. each day.  Of the
remaining shut-in oil production, a few shut-in deepwater facilities
account for approximately 60% of the 126,090 barrels.  The operators of
these facilities have "tentatively" scheduled to be back online by the
end of the first quarter 2005.  **Because there will be few weekly
changes as a result of these plans, this is the last update on shut-in
production that MMS will issue.\
**<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2005/press0214.htm>

**Kinder Morgan CA Pipeline Operations Resume**

A jet fuel pipeline that was shut last week by a leak resumed
transporting fuel to the San Francisco and Oakland, California, airports
at 4:30 a.m. PST on Saturday after an eight-foot section of the 12-inch
pipe was replaced and tests were run to check its integrity. A small
hole, found in a four-foot long scrape on the top of the pipe, is
believed to have allowed fuel to seep into a parallel storm drain
through which it flowed into the Oakland Estuary on the east side of San
Francisco Bay.

Reuters, 1541 February 14, 2005

### ConocoPhillips' Reduces Run Rates at Belle Chasse

ConocoPhillips said it reduced run rates at its 257,000 barrel per day
Belle Chasse, Louisiana refinery after a Sunday fire but would not
comment on what percentage of crude runs were cut.

Reuters, 1257 February 14, 2005

**Citgo Restarts Corpus Christi Cat Cracker**

Citgo Petroleum Corp. restarted a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic
cracking unit at its 165,000 barrel per day refinery in Corpus Christi,
Texas, over the weekend. The cat cracker was shut on Thursday, due to
\"mechanical issues."

Reuters 1248, February 14, 2005

### BP Pipestill Compressor Failing

A pipestill compressor failed at BP Plc\'s 437,000 bpd refinery in Texas
City, Texas according to a Feb 13^th^ regulatory filing.

Reuters 1257, February 14, 2005

**Premcor's Port Arthur FCC to Go Down again for Maintenance**

Premcor announced on Friday that it would shut its fluid catalytic
converter at its 260,000 bpd Port Arthur refiner on February 20^th^ for
about 28 days. Gasoline production will be impacted. The whole refinery
just came out of a major maintenance turnaround at the beginning of this
year.

Oil Daily, February 14, 2005

**OPEC May Cut 1 Million Barrels/Day**

OPEC may cut production by 500,000 to 1 million barrels a day in the
second quarter if stockpiles grow and prices fall, the group\'s acting
secretary-general said. OPEC, producer of about 40 percent of the
world\'s oil, is pumping 29.2 million to 29.4 million barrels a day.

Bloomberg News, February 14, 2005

**Natural Gas**

**Hurricane Ivan Natural Gas Production Shut-in Statistics -- Final
Report**\
Shut-in gas production is equivalent to 1.19% of the daily production of
gas in the GOM, which is approximately 12.3 billion cubic feet per day
(BCFPD).  The 146.50 million cubic feet per day (MMCF) per day currently
shut-in is approximately 0.24% of the 60.184 BCF consumed in the U.S.
each day.** **

<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2005/press0214.htm>

**Another Plan for a Baja California LNG Terminal\
**A third proposal for an LNG receiving terminal in Baja California,
Mexico surfaced Wednesday with business news reports out of Mexico City
of an Italian-Mexican private-sector joint venture wanting to develop a
floating terminal about five miles off the coast of Rosarito Beach.
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**Other News**

Nothing to Report.

**Energy Prices**

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (02       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /14/05)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 47.44     | 45.35     | 34.51      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 5.95      | 6.02      | 5.62       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
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> Source: Reuters

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