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

**Office of Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**November 9, 2004**

**Electricity**

**Sempra's 324 Megawatt Elk Hills Gas-fired Unit Curtails Power**

Reuters, 1349 November 9, 2004

**AES's 235 Megawatt Alamitos 5 Gas-fired Unit Curtails Power**\
Reuters, 1349 November 9, 2004

**Cooper Nuke in Nebraska up to 56 Percent Power in Power**

Nebraska Public Power District\'s 778-megawatt Cooper nuclear unit in
Nebraska ramped up to 56 percent of capacity by early Tuesday, the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in its power reactor status report.
On Monday, the unit was operating at 20 percent of capacity after
exiting an outage begun on about Oct. 19 to inspect and repair a turbine
vibration.

Reuters, 0709 November 9, 2004\
Bloomberg News, 0952 November 9, 2004

**Salem Reactors in New Jersey Return to Full Power\
**Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.\'s Salem 1 and 2 nuclear reactors
in southern New Jersey returned to full power. The units reduced
production Nov. 7 because of solar magnetic disturbances, said Skip
Sindoni, a spokesman for the Newark, New Jersey-based company. The
disturbances, caused by solar storms affecting the earth\'s surface,
introduce ground currents that can overheat and damage electrical
equipment, Sindoni said. Reducing power output can offset potential
increases in ground current, he said. The 1,096-megawatt Salem 1 had
reduced production to 77 percent of capacity and the 1,092-megawatt
Salem 2 decreased output to 78 percent of capacity.\
Bloomberg News, 1120 November 9, 2004

**Calpine\'s Goldendale Energy Center Commences Operation**

Calpine Corporation (NYSE: CPN) announced today that its 250 MW
Goldendale Energy Center in Goldendale, Washington has begun commercial
operation. The electric generating facility is interconnected with the
Klickitat Public Utility District and the Bonneville Power
Administration grid and will sell power into the Pacific Northwest\'s
Mid-Columbia and California-Oregon Border delivery hubs.

Located about 50 miles south of Yakima, Wash. and 120 miles east of
Portland, Ore., the facility is fueled by clean-burning natural gas.
Featuring one General Electric Frame 7FA gas combustion turbine in
combined- cycle with a Hitachi steam turbine, Goldendale is more
efficient than most existing projects operating in the state, resulting
in more affordable generation and a reduced environmental impact.

<http://www.energycentral.com/centers/news/daily/article.cfm?aid=5253693>

**FPL Reschedules St. Lucie-2 Refueling Outage**

Florida Power & Light (FPL) has postponed St. Lucie-2\'s scheduled
refueling outage, originally planned to begin at the end of this month,
until January 2005. In a recent filing with the Securities & Exchange
Commission, FPL cited the impacts of hurricanes Frances and Jeanne in
September 2004 as the reason for changing the schedule. FPL spokeswoman
Rachel Scott said repairs are still

being made to some of the site\'s warehouses and offices that were
damaged by the storms. Also, there were concerns about housing for
outage workers, since many hotels in the area were damaged and are not
expected to open until January.
<http://www.platts.com/Nuclear/News/9919347.xml?S=n>

**Petroleum**

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

Shut-in oil production is equivalent to 12.48% of daily production of
oil in GOM, which is approximately 1.7 million BOPD.  The 212,248
barrels per day that is currently shut-in is approximately 1.08% of the
19.7 million barrels consumed in the U.S. each day. The cumulative
shut-in oil production for the period 9/11/04-11/9/04 is 28,702,109
bbls, which is equivalent to 4.744% of the yearly production of oil in
the GOM which is approximately 605 million barrels.\
<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1109.htm>

**Update \-- Shell Texas Refinery Unit to Be Back to Normal Rates Today\
**Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the world\'s second largest publicly traded
oil company, expects a gasoline-producing unit at its Deer Park, Texas,
refinery to be running normally later today after processing was slowed
for repairs. The unit, a catalytic cracker, was put on \`\`stand-by\'\'
mode on Sunday so the company could make repairs, said David McKinney,
spokesman at the refinery. While the cracker wasn\'t completely shut
down, production from the unit was halted, temporarily reducing the
refinery\'s gasoline output, McKinney said. He didn\'t know what
prompted the repairs.\
Bloomberg News, 1216 November 9, 2004

**Oil Falls to a 6-Week Low as U.S. Supplies Expected to Increase**\
Bloomberg News, 1336 November 8

**NYMEX Crude Settles \$1.72 Lower as Supply Concerns Evaporate**
<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/2046772.xml?S=n>

**Oil Ends about \$2 Lower in Trading on Tuesday**\
<http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/041109/markets_oil_9.html>

**Update \-- Suez Canal Navigation Resumes, Oil Route Cleared\
**Egypt\'s Suez Canal, the waterway that links the Mediterranean and Red
Seas, opened after shipping was halted for three days by an oil tanker
that ran aground halfway through it, the canal authority said. The
Liberian-flagged Tropic Brilliance, laden with 142,547 tons of crude
oil, ran aground three days ago, closing the 101-mile canal for the
first time since 1975.\
Bloomberg News, 0957 November 9, 2004

**Iraq Halts Oil Flow on Northern Export Pipeline, Dow Jones Says\
**Iraq halted oil flows along its northern export pipeline to Turkey
because of production problems at its\
Kirkuk oil fields after persistent sabotage, Dow Jones Newswires\
Bloomberg News, 1004 November 9, 2004

**Nigeria\'s Senior Oil Workers\' Union to Join Nov 16 Fuel Strike\
**Nigeria\'s white-collar union Pengassan Tuesday said it had taken a
decision to join a general strike set to begin Nov 16 to protest a 25%
hike in retail fuel prices. \"We had an in-house meeting and the
decision was taken to participate in the strike,\" Pengassan\'s general
secretary Mojibayo Fadakinte told Platts. \"We will be participating in
the strike. We will start mobilizing workers from Friday. The chairman
of every zone will go back and brief his workers,\" Fadakinte said after
the meeting.

<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/9545382.xml?S=n>

### Northeast Faces 37 Pct. Rise in Heating Bill---EIA Consumers in the U.S. Northeast will see their heating oil bills soar an estimated 37 percent this winter, sharply higher than previously expected, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday. [**http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&ncid=1896&e=3&u=/nm/20041109/us_nm/energy_consumers_dc_1**](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&ncid=1896&e=3&u=/nm/20041109/us_nm/energy_consumers_dc_1)

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# Natural Gas

**Hurricane Ivan Natural Gas Production Shut-in Statistics\
**Shut-in gas production is equivalent to 5.99% of the daily production
of gas in the GOM, which is approximately 12.3 BCFPD.  The 737.86 MMCF
per day that is currently shut-in is approximately 1.23% of the 60.184
BCF consumed in the U.S. each day. The cumulative shut-in gas production
9/11/04-11/9/04 is 116.205 BCF, which is equivalent to 2.611% of the
yearly production of gas in the GOM which is approximately 4.45 TCF.\
<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1109.htm>

**Trunkline Gas to Shut in Texas Pipeline to Complete Repairs\
T**runkline Gas Co. will shut a pipeline between Cypress Station and GV
34 point in Texas November 16 though November 22 to make final repairs
to the line that ruptured last week.\
Bloomberg News, 1420 November 9, 2004

**Natural Gas Prices Drop Almost 20 Percent in One Day**

Natural gas for delivery at the Southern California border was trading
around \$5.54 to \$5.59 per million British thermal units on Tuesday,
sharply down from the prior day\'s average of \$6.68 per mBtu. Henry Hub
spot prices also dropped more than \$1 between Monday and Tuesday.\
Reuters, 1349 November 9, 2004

**TransCanada and Shell to Pursue Offshore LNG Terminal in Long Island
Sound**\
TransCanada Corporation and Shell US Gas & Power LLC today announced
plans to develop an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification
terminal, named Broadwater Energy, in the New York State waters of Long
Island Sound. The proposed terminal would be capable of receiving,
storing, and regasifying imported LNG with an average send-out capacity
of approximately one billion cubic feet a day of natural gas.\
<http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/041109/95895_1.html>\
Bloomberg News, 1423 November 9, 2004
[http://www.platts.com/Natural%20Gas/News/2552259.xml?S=n](http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/2552259.xml?S=n)

**FERC OKs Compressor Upgrades on Transwestern\'s Panhandle Lateral**\
FERC on Monday issued a certificate to Transwestern Pipeline to upgrade
existing compressor facilities on its Panhandle Lateral, which runs
through parts of New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.\
Natural Gas Intelligence, November 8, 2004

**Other News**

**Nuclear-Power Industry Sees Signs of a U.S. Revival**

The nuclear-power industry is laying the groundwork to build new plants
in the U.S. for the first time in more than two decades. Buoyed by the
re-election of President Bush, whose administration has pushed to expand
nuclear power as part of its national energy plan, the industry sees a
window of two to three years in which the political environment could
make it easier to win approval for new projects. Late last week, two
separate consortiums consisting of power companies and reactor makers
received word that the Department of Energy would share in the cost of
obtaining regulatory approval for new nuclear reactors. The two groups
expect the cost of winning that approval to be about \$500 million
apiece, due to the detailed engineering and testing required by
regulators for new reactors.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109996476958968447,00.html?mod=yahoo_hs>

**Energy Prices**

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (11       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /09/04)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 47.40     | 49.60     | 30.73      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 5.79      | 6.88      | 4.88       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
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> Source: Reuters

**This Week in Petroleum** from the Energy Information Administration
(EIA)

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Updated on Wednesdays

**Weekly Petroleum Status Report** from EIA**\
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Updated after 1:00pm (Eastern time) on Wednesdays

**Natural Gas Weekly Update** from EIA

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