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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

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

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**June 24, 2005**

**Highlights / Major Developments**

**WTI Spot Crude Oil Price Hits New Record High**\
See the price table at the end of this report.\
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Electricity**

**TXU's 750 MW Martin Lake 2 Coal-fired Unit Returns to Service June
24**\
Reuters, 14:23 June 24, 2005

### Update \-- Energy's 1,108 MW Columbia GS Nuke Unit in Washington Shut June 23

In Washington, Energy Northwest\'s Columbia nuke shut on June 23 due to
the loss of feedwater flow. The plant is not ramping back up as reported
yesterday.

Reuters, 14:23 June 24, 2005

**BC Hydro's 573 MW Powerex Hydro Unit in California Shut June 24**

Reuters, 14:23 June 24, 2005

**SCE's 287 MW Big Creek Hydro Unit in California Shut June 24**

Reuters, 14:23 June 24, 2005

### CDWR's 281 MW Hyatt Hydro Unit in California Shut June 24

Reuters, 14:23 June 24, 2005

**Progress Energy's 811 MW Brunswick 2 Nuke in NC Back at Full Power**

Progress Energy Inc.\'s 811-megawatt unit 2 at the Brunswick nuclear
power station in North Carolina returned to full power by early Friday,
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report. On Thursday,
the North Carolina-based company reduced the unit\'s power to about 75
percent of capacity to work on a recirculation water pump.

Reuters, 07:02 June 24, 2005

Omaha Public Power\'s Fort Calhoun Nuke in NE Ramped up to 85 Percent

The unit had reduced to about 30 percent of capacity early Thursday to
clean up after fixing a leak in the condenser.

Reuters, 14:00 June 24, 2005

**Elk Hills's 551 MW Elk Hills Gas-fired Unit in California Shut June
24**

Reuters, 14:23 June 24, 2005

**Coal Units Shut in Ontario Due to Protesters**

OPG had to shut two units at the Nanticoke coal-fired station and hold
two other units in reserve because of picketing outside of the plant
related to a strike between Hydro One company and one of its unions.
Each of these units has the capacity to generate about 494 MW of
electricity.

Reuters, 14:23 June 24, 2005

ISO-NE, NYISO, PJM to Coordinate on Natural Gas Supply Conditions
Related to Generation

The three northeastern regional grid operators have agreed (through a
Memorandum of Understanding) to collaborate to ensure electric power
system reliability in the event of constraints on the natural gas supply
system.

<http://www.energycentral.com/centers/news/daily/article.cfm?aid=5756567>

######## Petroleum

### Valero Says Corpus Christi Production Not Affected by Pump Malfunction

Valero Energy Corp. said Friday production was not affected after a pump
malfunction at a sulfur recovery unit at the East Plant of its 340,000
barrel per day refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Reuters, 12:02 June 24, 2005

**Refinery Glitches in West**\
Chevron Corp.\'s 243,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery in the San
Francisco Bay-area town of Richmond,

California, suffered a hydrogen recycle compressor failure on a
hydrocracking unit early Thursday. Earlier in the day rumors of a coker
outage at Chevron\'s 260,000 bpd refinery in the Los Angeles-area town
of El Segundo, California, moved CARB diesel prices 4 cents higher.
Traders continued to say a Wednesday malfunction affected the
gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit at Shell Oil Co.\'s
153,000 bpd refinery in the San Francisco Bay-area town of Martinez,
California.

Reuters, 19:57 June 23, 2005

**Deer Park Refining Plans CCU Restart**\
Deer Park Refining said on Friday that it plans to begin restarting the
67,000 barrel per day (bpd) catalytic cracking unit on Saturday at its
340,000 bpd refinery in the Houston suburb of Deer Park, Texas. The
restart could last through July 9. The gasoline-producing cat cracker
was shut after a heater steam coil ruptured on June 15.

Reuters, 15:43 June 24, 2005

**OPEC May Agree to Continue to Increase Production**

OPEC\'s may start consulting members of the oil producer group this
weekend on going ahead with the second stage of a 1-mil b/d output
ceiling increase agreed last week in Vienna, an OPEC source said Friday,
a day after US light crude prices briefly hit an unprecedented \$60/bbl.
<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/6134564.xml?S=n>

**Natural Gas**

**Iroquois Plans New Lateral, Mainline Expansion Project**\
Iroquois Gas Transmission announced a new open season for capacity on a
proposed 22-mile pipeline lateral and said it received expressions of
interest for about 805,000 Dth/d of firm capacity in its recent mainline
open season.

NGI's Daily Gas Price Index, June 24, 2005

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### Enbridge Energy Completes New East Texas Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline

Enbridge Energy Partners today announced that it has placed its new 500
MMcf/d East Texas natural gas transmission pipeline in service. The
36-inch diameter pipeline originates at the Partnership\'s existing
facilities near Bethel in Anderson County, Texas, and terminates at the
Enbridge Carthage Hub in Panola County, Texas.

<http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/050624/80468.html>

**Schwarzenegger Says CA Needs its own LNG Terminal**

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday said he thinks eventually
his state needs its own liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal,
but only after local citizens decide where it should be sited.

NGI's Daily Gas Price Index, June 24, 2005

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######## Other News

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Nothing to report.

######## Energy Prices 

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (06       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /24/05)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 59.63     | 58.40     | 37.81      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 7.45      | 7.61      | 6.41       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
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> Source: Reuters

**This Week in Petroleum** from the Energy Information Administration
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**Natural Gas Weekly Update** from EIA

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