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ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY

January 14, 2005

Electricity

Small Fire Extinguished at Millstone Unit 2

Employees at Millstone Power Station extinguished a small fire inside the Unit 2 turbine building Friday morning. The fire posed no danger to employees or the public, and there was no release of radiation. Unit 2 continued to operate safely at full power. The fire occurred in the turbine building, which is separate and apart from the containment structure that houses the reactor.

Reuters, 14:11, January 14,

Entergy’s Vermont Yankee Dips to 70 Percent

Entergy's Vermont Yankee nuclear generating station dipped to 70 percent of capacity by early Friday, down from full power on Thursday. A spokesman said the company reduced power for a rod pattern exchange. He said the unit would likely return to full power soon.

Reuters, 14:39, January 14, 2005

Southern’s Hatch Unit 1 Up to 86 Percent

Southern's Unit 1 at the Hatch nuclear generating station ramped up to 86 percent of capacity by early Friday, up from 24 percent after exiting an outage earlier in the week. The unit shut on Jan. 3 to repair a water leak in the drywell.

Reuters, 14:39, January 14, 2005

Southern's Vogtle Unit 1 At 98 Percent

Southern’s Unit 1 at the Vogtle nuclear generating station ramped up to 98 percent of capacity by early Friday, up from 27 percent after exiting an outage earlier in the week. The unit shut due to an electrical problem in a relay circuit in the main generator on Jan. 11.

Reuters, 14:39, January 14, 2005

Calpine’s Los Medanos Power Plant Exits Outage

Calpine Corp.'s 561-megawatt Los Medanos natural gas-fired power station in California exited an unplanned outage by late Thursday, the California Independent System Operator said in a report. The combined-cycle generating facility is located in the town of Pittsburg about 40 miles east of San Francisco.

Reuters 07:39, January 14, 2005.

OPG’s Unit 6 Shut

OPG’s 285 Coal Fired Unit 6 Shut on January 14, 2005. The unit is expected to return to service January 21.

Reuters, 14:39, January 14, 2005

Moss Landing Units 6 & 7 Ready For Service

The 754 MW Unit 6 and 756 MW Unit 7 at the Moss Landing gas-fired plant in California were released for service on Thursday afternoon following the completion of water damage repairs. The units did not initially ramp back up as low demand meant they were not called upon, he added. They were shut over the weekend following water damage to some equipment following heavy rains in California.

Reuters, 14:09, January 14, 2005

LPGC’s La Paloma 232 MW Gas-fired Unit 3 in California shut January 14.

Reuters, 14:09, January 14, 2005

Edison International’s 571 MW Gas-fired Sunrise unit in California shut January 13.

Reuters, 14:09, January 14, 2005

Petroleum

Price Of Crude Back Above $48 A Barrel

Crude oil rose to a six-week high in futures trading yesterday, amid predictions of colder weather for the Northeast, lower production from OPEC nations and fears of more disruption to Iraq's petroleum industry as that nation's election nears. Crude oil for February delivery closed yesterday at $48.04 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up $1.67 from the previous day's close.



Refinery Talk Spurring Gulf Mogas Differentials

Gulf Coast gasoline differentials surged by 1.50cts Friday morning on more talk of Gulf Coast refinery issues. Although nothing has been confirmed as yet, rumors surrounding ChevronTexaco's 350,000 b/d Pascagoula, Miss., refinery are boosting the mogas basis. OPIS earlier reported ChevronTexaco planning to take down a 160,000 b/d crude unit at Pascagoula for turnaround beginning in mid-February.

Oil Price Information Service 09 51 January 14, 2005.

California Mudslides Temporarily Shut-In Production

Vintage Petroleum, Inc. announced Friday that it has temporarily shut-in net daily production of approximately 5,000 barrels of oil and 6,000 Mcf of gas in the company's Ventura County, California operations as a result of the heavy rains and mudslides experienced in the area over the last week. The volume temporarily shut-in represents approximately 7.6 percent of the 78,919 BOE of net daily volume produced in the third quarter of 2004. Activity is currently underway to assess the extent of the damage and to restore production to its previous level as quickly as possible, although it is expected that portions of the production will remain shut-in for several weeks.

Reuters, 12:53, January 14, 2005

Turkish Straits delays rise to 12 days for tankers

Delays for oil tankers at the Turkish Straits rose to 12 days for a round trip to the Black Sea on Friday, as heavy fog kept the Bosphorus waterway shut, local shipping agents said. Leth Mastership said delays for tankers steaming north through the Dardanelles and Bosphorus were about six days with another six days to pass south again. Delays have doubled since Monday with maritime authorities forced to shut the Straits for most of the week because of poor visibility. The waiting times are considerably down on this time last year, however, when oil firms were facing delays of over a month on crude and products supplies.

Reuters, 07:12, January 14, 2005.

Iraq Baiji pipeline hit, north oil exports idle

Saboteurs have attacked an oil pipeline in northern Iraq near the refining centre of Baiji, witnesses said on Friday. It was not immediately known whether the blast targeted the Iraq-Turkey export pipeline, which passes through the area as well as pipelines feeding refineries and power stations. A blast on Thursday night ripped off a section of the pipeline in the Fatha area near Baiji, home to Iraq's biggest refinery. Northern oil exports have been idle since Dec. 18, when saboteurs hit the Iraq-Turkey pipeline.

Reuters, 03:38, January 14, 2005.

Shell Resumes Production At Four Out Of Five Nigeria Stations

Shell resumed production at four of the five flow stations that were shut down five weeks ago after protests by villagers in the south-east Rivers State disrupted output. "We have re-opened Ekulama 1 so four are back," a company spokesman said. No production figures were available for the Ekulama 1 station that was briefly taken over by villagers from Kula community on Dec 5 in a row over local benefits and jobs. A fifth station, Awoba, has yet to resume, the spokesman said. The company has, so far, restored 65,000 b/d at the Santa Barbara, Belema and Ekulama 1 stations. The protests forced Shell Dec 22 to declare force majeure to warn customers that it would not be able to meet export contracts from its Bonny terminal until early February because of the shut downs. Shell sources say they are repairing 34 leak points at Egbema and are working on resolving the community dispute at Odeama. The company has said it would consider lifting a 114,000 bpd force majeure declared on Dec. 22 and based on the Ekulama shut in and Egbema dispute, after the majority of production has been restored



Reuters 08:18, January 14, 2005.

Con Edison Cuts Estimate For NYC Power Repairs

Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Inc. shortened the expected length of a forced electric transmission outage in New York City from Feb. 15 to Feb. 1, the utility reported to the state grid operator this week. On December 8, a fire damaged a transmission line and related equipment at a substation at Con Edison's East 13th Street station in Manhattan. The outage curtailed the flow of electricity within the city by about 800 megawatts and delayed the company's planned two and a half month upgrade of another power line.

Reuters 11:01, January 14, 2005.

Natural Gas

Coos County's Cooking With Gas

On Thursday, engineers for Northwest Natural Gas Co. were to open the valve on the supply line to send gas flowing over the county's 60 miles of new pipeline stretching from Roseburg to Coos Bay, capping a 30-year effort. The gas will flow from the Williams Interstate Pipeline traveling south from British Columbia along the Interstate 5 corridor to the Coos County transmission pipeline and into the NW Natural Gas distribution system.



Other News

Nothing To Report

Energy Prices

| |Latest (1/14/05) |Week Ago |Year Ago |

|CRUDE OIL | | | |

|West Texas Intermediate US |48.01 |45.32 |35.16 |

|$/Barrel | | | |

|NATURAL GAS | | | |

|Henry Hub |6.45 |5.82 |5.43 |

|$/Million Btu | | | |

Source: Reuters

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