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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

**Office of Energy Assurance**

**ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY**

**November 29, 2004**

**Electricity**

**Power Plants with Unplanned Outages**

  ----------- --------- ------- ------ ---------- ------- --------------------------
  Power Plant Company   State   Fuel   Capacity   Date    Reason
  Name                                 MW         Out     

  Pickering 4 OPG       Ont     Nuke   475        Nov 26  Unknown

  Coleto      Sempra    TX      Coal   632        Nov 27  Boiler tube failure
  Creek                                                   

  Big Brown 1 TXU       TX      Coal   575        Nov 28  Boiler tube leak

  Alamitos 5  AES       CA      Gas    235        Nov 29  Unknown

  Alamitos 6  AES       CA      Gas    245        Nov 29  Unknown

  Etiwanda 4  Reliant   CA      Gas    320        Nov 29  Unknown

  Pittsburg 5 Mirant    CA      Gas    312        Nov 29  Unknown

  Palo Verde  APS       AZ      Nuke   1,270      1 extra Checking valves in reactor
  3                                               week    system; should be
                                                          completed by Dec 4-5
  ----------- --------- ------- ------ ---------- ------- --------------------------

**Power Plants Returning from Unplanned Outages**

  ----------- ---------- ------- ------ ---------- ----------- --------------------------
  Power Plant Company    State   Fuel   Capacity   Date        Reason
  Name                                  MW         Returning   

  Brown's                AL      Nuke   1,150      Nov 25-30   Corrected turbine problem
  Ferry 3                                                      

  Point Beach            WI      Nuke   517        Nov26       Repaired steam leak on an
  2                                                            instrument isolation valve
                                                               inside containment

  Dresden 3   Exelon     IL      Nuke   800        Nov 26      

  Lennox 3    OPG        Ont     Oil    525        Nov 27      

  Nanticoke 2 OPG        Ont     Coal   490        Nov 27      

  Turkey      FPL        FL      Nuke   693        Nov 27      
  Point 3                                                      

  Kewaunee    WPS        WI      Nuke   557        Nov 27      

                                                               

  Parish 7    Genco      WA      Coal   560        Nov 27-28   Repaired main turbine
                                                               thrust bearing

  Nanticoke 1 OPG        Ont     Coal   490        Nov 29      

  Nanticoke 8 OPG        Ont     Coal   490        Nov 29      

  Cook 2      AEP        MI      Nuke   1,080      Nov 29      Repaired leak in coolant
                                                               system

  Vogtle 2    Southern   GA      Nuke   1,215      Nov 29      Corrected error during
                                                               surveillance test

  Big Brown 1 TXU        TX      Coal   575        Nov 30      Repaired boiler tube leak

  Coleto      Sempra     TX      Coal   632        Nov 30      Repaired boiler tube
  Creek                                                        
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Bloomberg News, 0829 November 29, 2004\
Reuters, 0728, 0952, 1059, 1253, 1356, 1437, and 1501 November 29, 2004

### Over 10,000 Lose Power in North Oakland, South Berkeley, California

A fast-moving storm packing high winds dumped up to 18 inches of snow in
the Sierra Nevada on Saturday --- bringing cheers to skiers but causing
delays to travelers homeward bound from the Thanksgiving holiday. A
failed instrument landing system at Reno-Tahoe International Airport
further complicated travel from the area, forcing the delay or
cancellation of 69 flights for thousands of travelers. In the Bay Area,
winds also downed power lines, knocking out electricity to thousands of
customers in north Oakland and south Berkeley. PG&E spokesman David
Eisenhauer said about 10,000 customers in the area around 54th Street
and Shattuck Avenue were affected. There was also an outage around 94th
Avenue and B Street in Oakland. Service was restored to most customers
by 5 p.m. Saturday. <http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_2475768>

**Petroleum**

# Hurricane Ivan Natural Gas 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 9/11/04-11/29/04 is 32,662,715
bbls, which is equivalent to 5.399% of the yearly production of oil in
the GOM which is approximately 605 million barrels.

<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1129.htm>

# Ship Spills 30,000 Gallons of Oil Near Philadelphia

**Contained by Floating Barriers**

The Cyprus-flagged vessel Athos 1 was carrying about 325,000 gallons of
oil when the spill occurred.

The spill was contained as of about noon Saturday, Coast Guard spokesman
Patrick Montgomery told CNN. The vessel first called the Coast Guard
about 9:15 p.m. Friday to report the leak. Edwards said it would take
days to clean up the 10-mile portion of the river. Other vessels were
lined up, waiting to pass through the area. Divers found a six-foot-long
gash in the tanker. The worst spill on the river in nearly a decade
stalled commercial vessels trying to move cargo through the Port of
Philadelphia, killed hundreds of birds, and stymied investigators. Coast
Guard officials said they expected some of the 20 or so stranded ships -
which carried oil, steel, fruit and other cargo - to be permitted
through the 10-mile shipping channel between the Commodore Barry and
Walt Whitman Bridges today.
<http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/27/oilspill.philadelphia/index.html>

<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-oil-spill,0,1883725.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines>\
<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/10291728.htm?1c>

**Some Shipping to resume on Delaware River After Oil Spill\
**Limited shipping could resume on the Delaware River south of
Philadelphia as early as Monday after an oil spill late last week halted
vessels, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Twenty-five vessels, some of them
carrying crude oil or petroleum products, were waiting for the river to
reopen, officials said.
[*http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6944311&src=rss/domesticNews*](http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6944311&src=rss/domesticNews)

**Kinder Morgan Pipeline Supplying Gasoline to Las Vegas Area by Last
Friday**

According to U.S. Government sources, the disruption in the Kinder
Morgan pipeline (last Monday) which supplies gasoline to the Las Vegas
area has been repaired. The pipeline was supplying regular grade
gasoline by early Friday morning. The pipeline is also now supplying
premium gasoline. Kinder Morgan inventories are strong and they are into
a normal cycling of product in the pipeline and expect no further
problems. U.S. Government sources, morning of November 29, 2004

**Sun Refinery in New Jersey Damaged by Fire Thursday Morning**\
A two alarm fire at Sun\'s 148,000 b/d refinery at Eagle Point, New
Jersey, occurred early Thursday morning. No definitive word yet on the
damage.\
OPIS Price Watch Alert, November 26 2004\
[http://kyw.com/Local%20News/local_story_330132524.html](http://kyw.com/Local News/local_story_330132524.html)

**Statoil Shuts in 200,000 b/d Oil Output on Snorre A Platform Leak**

Norway\'s Statoil has been forced to shut in some 205,000 b/d of crude
output and \"a small amount\" of natural gas production in the North Sea
following a gas leak at its Snorre A platform Sunday evening, a company
spokeswoman said Monday. This includes about 130,000 b/d of oil produced
from the Snorre A platform and 75,000 b/d from the Vigdis field, whose
output is processed at Snorre A, the spokeswoman said. An injection well
on the platform began leaking gas around 19:00 Sunday (1400 GMT),
prompting the company to evacuate 180 crew members to surrounding
platforms and cease production immediately. Some 36 workers were left
behind to combat the leak, Statoil said in a statement.\
<http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/5645867.xml?S=n>

# Exxon Mobil Joliet Restarts Gasoline Unit After Fire

Exxon Mobil\'s refinery in Joliet, Illinois, was restarting a
gasoline-making unit on Monday that was shut on Friday after a fire, a
company spokesman said. There was no word when the unit would return to
full production. The Joliet refinery has a total crude distillation
capacity of 238,000 barrels per day.\
Reuters, 1126 November 29, 2004

**Crude Oil Futures Up After a Gas Leak Shut Down North Sea Platform\
**Crude oil futures traded above \$49 per barrel Monday after a gas leak
shut down a North Sea oil production platform. The snag comes amid
lingering concerns about heating oil supplies this winter.
<http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/041129/markets_oil_2.html>\
<http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041129/oil_prices_5.html>

[**The Oil Is There, Now It Has To Flow Into
Inventories**](http://www.energyintel.com/DocumentDetail.asp?document_id=135713)\
Supply of crude oil outstripped demand by some 2.3 million barrels per
day in October, according to EIB sister publication OMI, and oil prices
are coming down in reaction to slowing demand growth and ample supply in
recent months. But so far the oil has failed to show up in October\'s
reported inventory data, and last month\'s inventories in fact
contracted by 500,000 b/d from September. But hefty revisions to stock
data for October can be expected, as happened in August and September.\
Oil Market Intelligence, November 2004.

**Northern Iraqi Oil Pipeline Hit by Bombs; Oil Flow Cut 80 Percent\
**Twin explosions hit an oil pipeline in northern Iraq, disrupting the
flow of oil, an official said. The targeted pipeline connects Baiji and
Dura refineries some 200 kilometres north of Baghdad, said Majid Mannun,
chief engineer for the Baiji plant. A nearby pipeline, linking Baiji
refinery to northern oil fields, was hit on Nov 25, despite the recent
deployment of a 2,000-strong Iraqi security force to protect oil
infrastructure. <http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/041129/323/f7igv.html>

**Saudi Arabia to Raise Oil Capacity to Ease Concerns\
**Saudi Arabia, the world\'s largest oil exporter, plans to expand
output capacity by 14 percent to avert shortages as demand rises, the
nation\'s oil minister said. The nation\'s capacity will rise to 12.5
million barrels a day from 11 million now.\
Bloomberg News, 1234 November 29, 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
9/11/04-11/29/04 is 129.805 BCF, which is equivalent to 2.917% of the
yearly production of gas in the GOM which is approximately 4.45 TCF.\
<http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2004/press1129.htm>

**U.S. Spot Natgas Rebounds from Light Holiday Demand**\
Henry Hub spot natural gas was down to \$5.01/Million BTU on Friday, but
rebounded Monday up to \$6.76/Million BTU.

Reuters, 1445 November 29, 2004

**Canadian Natural Gas Reserves Continue to Fall Despite Record
Drilling\
**Canada\'s known natural gas reserves continue to decline even though a
record number of wells were drilled in 2003, a Canadian energy industry
announced Thursday, November 25. In its annual estimate of energy
reserves, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) said
natural gas reserves declined by 2.5 trillion cubic feet by the end of
last year, to 56.6 trillion cubic feet. According to CAPP, Canada is the
third largest natural gas producer in the world and by far the largest
supplier of gas to the U.S. market. Report:
http://www.capp.ca/default.asp?V_DOC_ID=1098

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20041125/ca\_

pr_on_bu/cdn_energy_reserves_3

**Other**

[**High Oil Price Helps Spur Biofuel
Bonanza**](http://www.energyintel.com/DocumentDetail.asp?document_id=135931)\
Soaring oil prices are giving a leg-up to ethanol and biodiesel, two
biofuel alternatives for transportation fuel. While these fuels \-- made
from crops such as sugar cane in the case of ethanol and oil seed for
biodiesel \-- are not expected to displace regular gasoline and diesel
in fuel tanks, their popularity is increasing as a blending stock, mixed
in with conventional fuels.\
Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, November 29, 2004

**Energy Prices**

+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|                               | **Latest  | **\       | **\        |
|                               | (11       | Week      | Year Ago** |
|                               | /29/04)** | Ago**     |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **CRUDE OIL**                 | 49.71     | 48.48     | 30.33      |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **West Texas Intermediate     |           |           |            |
| US**                          |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Barrel                     |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
| **NATURAL GAS**               | 6.76      | 5.24      | 4.86       |
|                               |           |           |            |
| **Henry Hub**                 |           |           |            |
|                               |           |           |            |
| \$/Million Btu                |           |           |            |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+

> Source: Reuters

**Correction: Spot Price of Crude Oil West Texas Intermediate US
\$/Barrel was \$49.14 on 11/26/2004 not \$40.11.**

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