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

**Office of Electricity Delivery and\
Energy Reliability**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**November 15, 2005**

## Highlights/Major Developments

**Update: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma**

For the latest damage assessment and restoration efforts concerning
hurricanes, see the latest Gulf Coast Hurricanes situation report from
the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) of the
U.S. Department of Energy @
[[http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov]{.underline}](http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/).
For the statistics on shut-in oil and gas production in the Gulf of
Mexico, please click on the following link:
[[http://www.mms.gov/]{.underline}](http://www.mms.gov/). For statistics
on shut-in oil and gas production and pipeline status in Louisiana,
please click on the following link:
<http://dnr.louisiana.gov/sec/execdiv/pubinfo/daily-onshore-prod.ssi>

### Damage Assessments Updates

MMS reports that 80 pipelines in Hurricane Katrina and 68 pipelines in
Hurricane Rita have been reported to be damaged. The number of platforms
destroyed has been changed to 112 instead of 113. One platform was
destroyed by Hurricane Katrina (leg damage and severely leaning), and it
was reported again for Hurricane Rita (completely missing) by the
operator. ( 46 for Katrina and 66 for Rita).\
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**Entergy New Orleans Plans to Increase Restoration Crews**\
Faced with sharp public criticism of the pace of restoring power and
natural gas to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, the Entergy Corp. unit
that serves the city has come up with \$4.4 million to hire outside
crews to speed up the process.
<http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=4122993&nav=EyB0>

**Entergy Continues Repairs of Hurricane-damaged Power Plants**\
Entergy Corp. continued to repair hurricane damage at the 825-megawatt
Michoud gas/oil power plant in Louisiana and two units at the 1,890 MW
Sabine gas/oil station in Texas, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Hurricane Katrina knocked the Michoud plant out of service in late
August. Hurricane Rita shut the Sabine station in late September.
Separately, the spokeswoman said the company continued to work on the
485 MW Harrison County gas-fired station in Texas. Harrison shut on May
13 after a ruptured natural gas pipeline damaged the plant.\
Reuters, 11:36 November 15, 2005

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######## Electricity

**Over 57,000 Customers in Michigan Lose Power Nov 14**

Many of those customers may not have electricity until this evening or
even Wednesday morning. Dave Guzniczak of Great Lakes Energy said that
about 10,000 customers were without service Monday afternoon. Consumers
Energy reported that about 47,000 of its customers had no power Monday.
Electrical cooperatives also had customers without power due to the
storm.

<http://www.record-eagle.com/2005/nov/15weath.htm>

**FPL's 693 MW Turkey Point 4 Nuke in Florida Returned to Power Nov 14**

The company shut the unit by Oct. 24 before Hurricane Wilma struck the
Florida coast.

Reuters, 07:224 & 13:49 November 15, 2005

**AES' 226 MW Huntington Beach 2 Gas-fired Unit in California Shut Nov
14**

Reuters, 02:09 November 15, 2005\
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**Southern\'s Hatch 1 Nuclear Reactor in Georgia to Resume Service
Today**\
The plant shut Oct. 29 because of a transformer fire.\
Bloomberg News, 10:54 November 15, 2005

# PPL\'s Susquehanna Reactor in Pennsylvania Returns to Service Nov 14

PPL brought its Susquehanna 1 nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania back into
service last night

after shutting down the unit on Oct. 28 because of friction in its
control rods and fuel assemblies.

Bloomberg News, 08:45 November 15, 2005

**Entergy\'s Waterford 3 Nuke in Louisiana Exited an Outage Nov 14**

The company shut the unit on Nov. 11 due to the mechanical failure of
the condenser circulating pumps.

Reuters, 13:49 November 15, 2005

**More Cracks Found in Vermont Yankee Steam Dryer**\
The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant has found dozens more cracks in a key
plant component, but plant and Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials
said Thursday that they don\'t matter much. Vermont\'s three-member
congressional delegation wrote to the NRC urging it to take a close look
at the issues surrounding the 62 cracks found in the plant\'s steam
dryer, a component at the top of the reactor that removes moisture from
steam before it is sent to the plant\'s turbine. Entergy Nuclear,
Vermont Yankee\'s owner, said the cracks had been found with a new,
higher-resolution remote camera.
<http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051111/BUSINESS/511110321/-1/SUMMER&theme>

**Companies Interested in Building Plants in Wyoming**\
A number of companies are considering Wyoming sites to build coal-fired
power plants or coal gasification. The state has been working to
increase the number of transmission lines since more will be needed to
move any additional electricity produced from new plants. Denver-based
North American Power Group recently revealed plans to construct a \$1
billion coal-fired power plant near Douglas, along with a \$180 million
network of high-voltage lines to transmit the power to customers in
Colorado.
<http://kutv.com/wyomingwire/WY-BRF--PowerPlants-wn/resources_news_html>

For information on damage and restoration efforts to the electricity
infrastructure due to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, please see
the Gulf Coast Hurricanes situation report from the Office of
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) of the U.S. Department
of Energy at the following link:
[http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov](http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/)

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**Citgo Corpus Christi Refinery Unibon Unit Restarts Nov 13**

Citgo Petroleum began to restart on Sunday a unibon unit and sulfur
recovery unit at its 165,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Corpus Christi,
Texas, according to a filing with state regulators. The unit was shut on
Oct. 29, according to a previous filing, but had been expected to be
back starting on Nov. 2.

Reuters, 09:36 November 15, 2005

**Hibernia Partners Find New Oil, Mum on Reserves**

Partners in Canada\'s biggest offshore oil project, Hibernia, have made
a discovery at the huge East Coast field that could mean a major boost
to recoverable reserves. Industry sources and Newfoundland officials
said they have heard that more than 300 million barrels may be in a new
reservoir called South Hibernia.

Reuters, 13:58 November 15, 2005

For information on damage and restoration efforts to the petroleum
infrastructure due to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, please see
the Gulf Coast Hurricanes situation report from the Office of
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) of the U.S. Department
of Energy at the following link:
[http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov](http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/)

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**Shell Says Repairs to Mars Platform Are \`Progressing Well\'\
**The oil and gas production from the Gulf platform is still expected to
resume in the second half of 2006 according to Shell's head of
exploration and production in the America's.\
Bloomberg News, 13:38 November 15, 2005\
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**U.S. Midwest Power Soars on Cold-Weather Forecasts, Rising Gas**\
Power for delivery tomorrow at the Cinergy Corp. hub in Ohio jumped
\$13.36, or 27 percent, to \$63.15 a megawatt-hour on the
Intercontinental Exchange, an electronic energy market. The cost in
Chicago for natural gas, a power-plant fuel, surged \$1.0161, or 14
percent, to \$8.5305 per million British thermal units on the
Atlanta-based exchange.\
Bloomberg News, 13:16 November 15, 2005

**Bay Gas, Tampa Electric Sign Natgas Storage Deal**

Bay Gas Storage Co. said Tuesday it would supply natural gas storage to
TECO Energy unit Tampa Electric Co. through an underground gas storage
cavern in Alabama that is expected to enter service by the summer of
2007. The new cavern will add about 5.0 bcf of working gas storage
capacity along with injection and withdrawal capacities of 225 mmcf and
600 mmcf per day, respectively.

Reuters, 11:09 November 15, 2005

######## For information on damage and restoration efforts to the natural gas infrastructure due to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, please see the Gulf Coast Hurricanes situation report from the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) of the U.S. Department of Energy at the following link: [**http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov**](http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/) 

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**Arch Coal's West Elk Mine in Utah Shut for at Least Six More Weeks**\
Arch Coal, Inc. today announced that it does not expect its West Elk
mine to resume operations for a minimum of six weeks following a sudden
increase in combustion-related gases at the site last week. The mine,
run by (Arch's) Mountain Coal Company typically produces more than six
million tons of high-Btu, compliance-quality coal annually. The vast
majority of that production is shipped to utilities that use West Elk
coal as a fuel for electric generation. The mine expects to deplete its
current inventory by the end of November.\
<http://www.energycentral.com/centers/news/daily/article.cfm?aid=6094008>

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+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (11       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /15/05)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 57.05     | 59.70     | 46.95      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 9.21      | 9.15      | 6.02       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
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> Source: Reuters

**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*