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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability ENERGY ASSURANCE DAILY

December 14, 2005

Highlights/Major Developments

Update: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma

For damage assessment and restoration efforts concerning hurricanes, see the Gulf Coast Hurricanes situation reports from the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) of the U.S. Department of Energy @ http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov. For the latest statistics on shut-in oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, please click on the following link: http://www.mms.gov For the latest statistics on shut-in oil and gas production and pipeline status in Louisiana, please click on the following link: http://dnr.louisiana.gov/sec/execdiv/pubinfo/daily-onshore-prod.ssi

Electricity

Mohave Coal-fired Plant in California to Close – Officials Confirm http://www.energycentral.com/centers/news/daily/latest_power_list.cfm

Over 17,000 Progress Energy Customers Out in North Carolina http://www.progress-energy.com/aboutenergy/stormcentral/outagemaps/carindex.asp

Progress Reduces 900 MW Brunswick 2 Nuke in North Carolina for Work Progress Energy Inc. reduced the 900-megawatt unit 2 at the Brunswick nuclear power station in North Carolina to about 50 percent of capacity on Tuesday to work on two systems. The company is working on the condenser and a recirculating water pump. There are also thousands of Progress Energy customers out of power in North Carolina, which may be related. See story above. Reuters, 10:56 December 14, 2005

TMPA’s 462 MW Gibbons Creek Coal-fired Unit in Texas Shut December 14 Texas Municipal Power Agency planned to shut the 462-megawatt Gibbons Creek coal-fired power station in Texas on Dec. 14-15 to fix a boiler tube leak. Reuters, 10:44 December 14, 2005

Wisconsin Energy’s 512 MW Point Beach 1 Nuke in Wisconsin Shut December 13 The operator of Wisconsin Energy Corp.'s 512-megawatt unit 1 at the Point Beach nuclear power station in Wisconsin manually tripped the unit on Tuesday, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday. The operator, Nuclear Management Co. of Hudson, Wisconsin, shut the unit due to the failure of a circulating water pump, which affected the condenser vacuum. Reuters, 10:27 December 14, 2005 1 Edison Mission to Increase California's Peaking Power Capabilities Edison Mission Group Incorporated has begun permitting for a new 500-megawatt (MW) peaking station. www.Industrialinfo.com Reuters, 07:09 December 14, 2005

Duke’s 260 MW Moss Landing 2 Gas-fired Unit in California Shut December 13 Reuters, 20:01 December 13, 2005

TXU’s 570 MW Big Brown 1 Coal-fired Unit in Texas Restarted December 14 Reuters, 20:01 December 13, 2005

OPG’s 494 MW Lambton 4 Coal-fired Unit in Ontario Restarted December 14 Reuters, 20:01 December 13, 2005

OPG’s 494 MW Lambton 3 Nuke in Ontario Shut for Work December 14 Ontario Power Generation's 494-megawatt unit 3 at the Lambton coal-fired power station in Ontario shut by early Wednesday for a short-term forced outage, a spokesman for the province-owned generating company said. Reuters, 11:09 December 14, 2005

Bruce Power’s 822 MW Bruce 6 Nuke Unit in Ontario Shut December 13 Reuters, 16:08 December 14, 2005

Ameren’s 440 MW Taum Sauk Hydro Unit in Missouri Shut December 14 Reuters, 16:08 December 14, 2005

Petroleum

Nothing to report.

Natural Gas

Bobcat Gas to Build Gas Storage Site in Louisiana Texas-based Bobcat Gas Storage said Wednesday it would build a salt-cavern natural gas storage facility in Port Barre, Louisiana. Bobcat said in a statement the site's two planned salt caverns will be located close to the benchmark U.S. natural gas trading hub near Eunice, Louisiana, and will have a combined working gas capacity of 12 billion cubic feet (bcf). Reuters, 13:53 December 14, 2005

NYMEX Natgas Tumbles Four Percent on Revised Forecasts At 12:35 p.m. EST, January natgas futures were down 59.8 cents, or 4 percent, to $14.78 per million British thermal units after trading between $14.57 and $15.08. Reuters, 12:45 December 14, 2005

Vector, Trunkline LNG Seek Expansions, Petal Puts New Storage Cavern in Service Vector Pipeline LP has filed an application to construct new compressor stations to accommodate a concurrent request to increase flows at its existing U.S.-Canadian border facilities. http://powermarketers.netcontentinc.net/newsreader.asp?ppa=8kowu%5D%5Bfiiiliq%5BThew11rbfek%5Cv

2 Mackenzie Project Delayed a Year; Initial Service Expected in 2011 Canadian arctic natural gas will stay frozen off North American markets for an extra year. The first planned northern pipeline construction season has been lost due to slow government and native negotiations, the Mackenzie Gas Project told regulators this week. http://powermarketers.netcontentinc.net/newsreader.asp? ppa=8kowu%5D%5Bfiiiliq%5BThew11rbfek%5Cv

Exxon, Alaska Near Gas Pipeline Deal: Lateral May Feed Anchorage Exxon Mobil's participation has long been viewed as being critical to the construction of a pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to the US lower 48 states. Industry veterans observing the efforts to develop a transportation system for the 35 Tcf or more of gas now stranded around Prudhoe Bay simply assumed that the project would come to fruition when Exxon was ready. That time appears very near. (Monday, December 12, 2005) http://www.energyintel.com/PublicationHomePage.asp?publication_id=9

Sempra Energy Gets FERC Permit for Gas Facility Sempra Energy said on Tuesday it has received a permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build and operate a natural gas storage facility in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. The facility, which will provide 17 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of working gas capacity for storage, is expected to be in service in mid- to late-2006. Reuters, 16:46 December 13, 2005

Other News

EIA Releases Annual Energy Outlook http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html

Energy Prices Latest Week Ago Year Ago (12/14/05) CRUDE OIL West Texas Intermediate US 60.86 59.21 41.76 $/Barrel NATURAL GAS Henry Hub 14.81 13.95 7.10 $/Million Btu Source: Reuters

This Week in Petroleum from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp Updated on Wednesdays

Weekly Petroleum Status Report from EIA http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/wpsr.html Updated after 1:00 pm (Eastern time) on Wednesdays

Natural Gas Weekly Update from EIA http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngw/ngupdate.asp Updated after 2:00 pm (Eastern time) on Thursdays