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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**November 18, 2004**

**Electricity**

**TVA\'s Browns Ferry 3 Nuclear Unit in Alabama Reduces Production\
**The Tennessee Valley Authority\'s 1,120-megawatt Browns Ferry 3
nuclear reactor in northern Alabama was operating at 82 percent of
capacity this morning, down from full power yesterday.\
Bloomberg News, 0856 November 18, 2004

**TXU's 750 MW Monticello 3 Coal-fired Unit Will Restart Friday or
Saturday**

Dallas-based TXU Corp. will start its 750-megawatt Monticello 3
coal-fired unit in Texas from Nov 19-20 following repairs, the company
told Texas regulators in a report. The company shut the unit on Nov.
14-15 to reduce vibration on a fan.

Reuters, November 18, 2004

**538 MW Prairie Island 2 Nuke Unit in Minnesota to Return Soon**\
The Nuclear Management Co. will likely return Minneapolis-based Xcel
Energy Inc.\'s 538-megawatt Prairie Island 2 nuclear unit in Minnesota
to service soon following an outage, a spokeswoman for the nuclear
operator said Thursday. NMC shut the unit on Nov. 17 to repair leaks in
the system that provides cool air to the containment building. The
plant\'s technical specifications require one of the two trains of the
containment cooling to be operable. Since both were not operable on
Wednesday, NMC took the unit off line.

Reuters, November 18, 2004

**AEP Shuts 28 MW Welsh 3 Coal-fired Unit in Texas**

Ohio-based American Electric Power Co Inc. shut its 528-megawatt Welsh 3
coal-fired power unit in Texas to fix a boiler tube leak, and will
likely restart the unit from Nov. 18-24, the company told Texas
regulators in a few reports Thursday. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the
company said in a separate report it would restart the adjacent 528 MW
unit 2 from Nov. 18-22 following an outage to work on the boiler and
precipitator begun on about Nov. 17-21.

Reuters, November 18, 2004

**NRG/Dynergy's 335 MW El Segundo 3 Gas-fired Unit Shut on Nov 18**

Reuters, 1439 November 18, 2004

**OPG's 490 MW Nanticoke 5 Coal-fired Unit Shut on Nov 18**

Reuters, 1439 November 18, 2004

**North American Winter Power Supplies Adequate, Grid Group Says\
**North American power supplies should be adequate this winter as the
addition of new generating capacity this year outpaced higher demand,
the North American Electric reliability Council said in a report
released today on its Web site.\
Bloomberg News, 1329 November 18, 2004

**Petroleum**

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

Shut-in oil production is equivalent to 11.54% of daily production of
oil in GOM, which is approximately 1.7 million BOPD.  The 196,222
barrels per day that is currently shut-in is approximately 0.99% of the
19.7 million barrels consumed in the U.S. each day. The cumulative
shut-in oil production for the period 9/11/04-11/18/04 is 30,504,273
bbls, which is equivalent to 5.042% of the yearly production of oil in
the GOM which is approximately 605 million barrels.\
<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1118.htm>

**ChevronTexaco to Increase Output at FCC Unit in Mississippi**\
ChevronTexaco announced another project at Pascagoula: increasing its
fluid catalytic cracking capacity by 25% from the current level of
63,000 b/d. <http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/4285990.xml?S=n>

### OPEC Projects Big Winter Oil Stockbuild

The OPEC cartel on Thursday revised down its expectations of oil demand
growth for next year and projected a rare big winter stockbuild if the
group keeps producing at current levels.
<http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041118/bs_nm/energy_opec_report_dc_1>

# Venezuela Says Would Support OPEC Oil Output Cut

Venezuela would support a cut in oil production by oil cartel OPEC when
the producers\' group next meets Dec. 10, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez
said Thursday.

Reuters, 1401 November 18, 2004

**Natural Gas**

**Hurricane Ivan Natural Gas Production Shut-in Statistics**\
Shut-in gas production is equivalent to 5.52% of the daily production of
gas in the GOM, which is approximately 12.3 BCFPD.  The 678.47 MMCF per
day that is currently shut-in is approximately 1.13% of the 60.184 BCF
consumed in the U.S. each day.** **The cumulative shut-in gas production
9/11/04-11/18/04 is 122.342 BCF, which is equivalent to 2.749% of the
yearly production of gas in the GOM which is approximately 4.45 TCF.\
<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1118.htm>

**ChevronTexaco Says Plans LNG Terminal at Pascagoula Refinery**

ChevronTexaco said Wednesday it plans to construct a 1.3 Bcf/d liquefied
natural gas import terminal at its 295,000 b/d refinery in Pascagoula,
Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/4285990.xml?S=n>

**Sempra Energy Receives FERC Permit to Construct Gas Storage
Facility**\
Sempra Energy today announced that its wholly owned gas storage
subsidiary, Pine Prairie Energy Center, LLC, has received a vote of
authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to
construct and operate its gas storage facility in Evangeline Parish, La.
Pine Prairie will develop three salt caverns with a total working
capacity of 24 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas, enabling maximum
injections of 1.2 Bcf per day and maximum withdrawals of 2.4 Bcf per
day. The facility will offer firm storage services as well as
interruptible hub services from its eight interstate and three
intrastate pipeline interconnects.\
<http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/041118/68021.html>

**Approving New Gas Storage Projects, US FERC Touts Flexibility**

Highlighting the application of rate flexibility to promote
infrastructure development, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
on Thursday cleared the way for operation of new gas storage capacity in
the Mid-Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions. In separate orders, FERC
approved a modified cost-based rate treatment for the Saltville Gas
Storage project in Virginia and market-based rates for the proposed Pine
Prairie Energy Center in Louisiana.
[http://www.platts.com/Natural%20Gas/News/6315302.xml?S=n](http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/6315302.xml?S=n)

**Other News\
**

Nothing to report.

**Energy Prices**

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|                               | **Latest  | **Week    | **Year     |
|                               | (11       | Ago**     | Ago**      |
|                               | /18/04)** |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 46.30     | 47.50     | 33.16      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
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| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 5.59      | 6.19      | 4.35       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
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| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
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> Source: Reuters

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