I think I'll answer this question for at least the fifth time in the last two
weeks and the 200th time since I've been at Enron (including at least the
third time I have answered for Carol and the third time I have answered for
Mary).
---------------------- Forwarded by Peter Keohane/CAL/ECT on 03/20/2001 08:14
AM ---------------------------
   Carol St Clair                03/20/2001 07:45 AM

To: Peter Keohane/CAL/ECT@ECT, Greg Johnston/CAL/ECT@ECT
cc: Sara Shackleton/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mary Cook/HOU/ECT@ECT
Subject: Cash Collateral In Canada

Peter and Greg:
One of our counterparties is questioning why we won't accept cash collateral
in Canada.  They claim that under the current state of the law, holding cash
collateral is the method for perfecting.  Please advise.  Should we ask
Stikeman to update their advice to us on this?

Carol St. Clair
EB 3889
713-853-3989 (Phone)
713-646-3393 (Fax)
carol.st.clair@enron.com


yes


WALC refers to the Pinnacle Peak delivery we are currently performing on.  In Enpower it is referred to as:  Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region - WALC.  The deal number is 705583.  Please let me know if you need any more information.

Thank you,
Holden

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Thome, Stephen
Sent:	Monday, January 14, 2002 2:25 PM
To:	Kroumov, Kroum
Cc:	Luong, Steven; Evans, Casey; Bishop, Serena; Alonso, Tom; Fischer, Mark; Salisbury, Holden
Subject:	RE: Customer Names

I will confirm deal numbers with the desk.  Its our understanding (per the 1:30 CST call) that we are continuing to make deliveries to WALC, which is WAPADESERTSW, and Edwards AFB, which is believed to be WAPADESERTSWAFB.  We will definitively identify WAPADESERTSW and Edwards deal numbers.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Kroumov, Kroum
Sent:	Monday, January 14, 2002 2:16 PM
To:	Thome, Stephen; Luong, Steven; Evans, Casey
Cc:	Postlethwaite, John
Subject:	RE: Customer Names

    If we assume that
      47358	Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region	            WAPADESERTSW
and 98773	Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region (USAFB)	WAPADESERTSWAFB

were terminated as well only the desks of two deals  852890 and 853003 should be changed
from EPMI Long Term Southwest to EPMI - West Performance

Casey, can you do that with Deal Entry for me please so I can avoid one long procedure for two deals.

Thanks,
Kroum
x39980

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Thome, Stephen
Sent:	Monday, January 14, 2002 4:08 PM
To:	Kroumov, Kroum; Luong, Steven; Evans, Casey
Cc:	Postlethwaite, John
Subject:	RE: Customer Names

I am not sure of your question, but DESERETGENTRAN has been terminated.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Kroumov, Kroum
Sent:	Monday, January 14, 2002 1:59 PM
To:	Luong, Steven; Evans, Casey
Cc:	Postlethwaite, John; Thome, Stephen
Subject:	RE: Customer Names

 Stephen,

Now we have the question
if the deals with

29894	Deseret Generation & Transmission Coop.	DESERETGENTRAN

or

      47358	Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region	            WAPADESERTSW
and 98773	Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region (USAFB)	WAPADESERTSWAFB

had to be on the list

As a matter of fact we are talking for fixing maximum 6 deals:
(Deseret Generation & Transmission Coop. was not changed in two only)

Deal No
552607	Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region		EPMI - West Performance
622299	Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region (USAFB)	EPMI - West Performance
638076	Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region (USAFB)	EPMI - West Performance
705583	Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region		EPMI - West Performance
852890	Deseret Generation & Transmission Coop.				EPMI Long Term Southwest
853003	Deseret Generation & Transmission Coop.				EPMI Long Term Southwest

which could be done with Deal Entry as well

Thanks,
Kroum

-----Original Message-----
From: 	Thome, Stephen
Sent:	Monday, January 14, 2002 12:49 PM
To:	Luong, Steven; Evans, Casey; Kroumov, Kroum
Cc:	Postlethwaite, John
Subject:	RE: Customer Names

WAPA Deseret is probably associated with Deseret G&T.  I suspect WAPA is purchasing power on behalf of the G&T to meet its obligations.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Luong, Steven
Sent:	Monday, January 14, 2002 10:41 AM
To:	Evans, Casey; Kroumov, Kroum
Cc:	Postlethwaite, John; Thome, Stephen
Subject:	RE: Customer Names

Kroum,

Hopefully this helps:

WALC - WAPA Lower Colorado - Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region
WAMP - WAPA Municipal Power-NP15 - Western Area Power Administration - Sacramento Area Office
WAPA Deseret - Western Area Power Administration-Desert Southwest Region (USAFB)

It looks like the only one you haven't run is the WAPA Sacramento Area Office.

Let me know if you have any more questions.  Thanks.

Steve


Tanya,

Yes. I have already mentioned this to Darrell.
By the way, Alex Ulitsky sends his regards.

Vince

Tanya Tamarchenko
05/22/2000 08:19 AM
To: Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: Re: Executive Program on Credit Risk Modeling

Vince, thank you for forwarding this info to me.
Yes, I'd like to attend this program.
Should I go ahead and mail them an application?

Tanya.


Please rebook to Springs Industries, Inc.


---------------------- Forwarded by Kay Mann/Corp/Enron on 03/30/2001 08:59
AM ---------------------------

Kay Mann
03/30/2001 06:30 AM
To: "Campbell, Carolyn" <CCampbell@KSLAW.com>, jkeffer@kslaw.com,
mreuter@kslaw.com
cc:

Subject: Anna Claire Sole

AC arrived around 200am today, weighing in at 7 1/4 lbs, 19 inches.  All are
fine, with the exception of Papa, who suffered a slightly bruised ego when he
fainted around 205.  As Carlos mentioned in his voice mail "the women were
quite amused".  The syncope episode was attributed to a hot delivery room.

Right.

Anyway, I don't intend to communicate with Carlos about the Delta deal.  He
has his hands full.

Talk to you later today,

Kay


----- Forwarded by Tana Jones/HOU/ECT on 08/15/2000 05:24 PM -----

	Bradley Diebner
	08/15/2000 05:19 PM

		 To: Frank L Davis/HOU/ECT@ECT, Karen Lambert/HOU/ECT@ECT, Tana
Jones/HOU/ECT@ECT, Samuel Schott/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sheri Thomas/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mark
Taylor/HOU/ECT@ECT, Bernice Rodriguez/HOU/ECT@ECT, Brant Reves/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Debbie R Brackett/HOU/ECT@ECT, David Hardy/LON/ECT@ECT, Lesli
Campbell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Molly Harris/HOU/ECT@ECT, Cynthia
Clark/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Mary G Gosnell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Enron Europe Global
Contracts and Facilities, Enron Europe Global CounterParty, Stephanie
Sever/HOU/ECT@ECT, Bradley Diebner/HOU/ECT@ECT, Stacey
Richardson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Tom Moran/HOU/ECT@ECT, Adnan Patel/Corp/Enron@ENRON,
Claudia Clark/HOU/ECT@ECT
		 cc:
		 Subject: EOL Credit Responses 08/15/00

The EOL approvals for 08/15/00 are attached below.

Regards,
bd


This guy has it right.
----- Forwarded by Steven J Kean/NA/Enron on 01/02/2001 12:17 PM -----

	Jeff Dasovich
	Sent by: Jeff Dasovich
	01/02/2001 10:37 AM

		 To: mpalmer@enron.com, skean@enron.com, Karen Denne/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Joe
Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Susan J Mara/NA/Enron@ENRON, Linda
Robertson/NA/Enron@ENRON, Mary Hain/HOU/ECT@ECT, Cynthia
Sandherr/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Alan Comnes/PDX/ECT@ECT, Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT,
Sandra McCubbin/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, James D
Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Sarah Novosel/Corp/Enron@ENRON
		 cc:
		 Subject: Editorial by George Miller in SF Chronicle--"Another Utility
Bailout Should Leave Us Cold "

Another Utility Bailout Should Leave Us Cold
George Miller
Sunday, December 31, 2000
,2001 San Francisco Chronicle
URL:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/31/E
D134916.DTL
OUR CURRENT energy problems are urgent and serious. But before the governor
and the Public Utilities Commission cut yet another deal costing consumers
billions of dollars, perhaps they should pause to ask the public what kind of
system it wants and what it will end up with after investing billions more.
Failure of energy deregulation could speed real deregulation that might
benefit consumers with real capacity and real competition. But this will not
happen if the focus is only on California utilities and their shareholders.
The original deregulation deal was designed, as I see it, to keep competition
out of California -- and to maximize the rates consumers would pay for every
bad past business decision by PG&E and other California utilities.
Similarly, current bailout discussions are about forcing California
ratepayers to pay for the failed deregulation plan designed by the utilities
themselves. Once again, the companies seek to maximize profits and socialize
the losses.
Following on the heels of California's deregulation, the state's utilities
came to the congressional delegation and urged us to protect the plan from
federal deregulation efforts. They argued that the deal they cut was good for
all parties. Their executives repeated time and again that they might benefit
from the plan's cap on consumer prices -- and that there was a risk to them
if wholesale prices were to go up.
This, they told us, is the marketplace. They were willing to absorb the risk.
This was the brave new world of free markets.
But markets are never free. From the beginning, this deregulation plan was
designed to buy the California utilities time and advantage. Initially,
consumers saw lower rates, but not as low as real competition might have
provided when compared to the heavily sheltered market of the past five
years. Now, because this rigged marketplace has failed, the utilities want
again to put their hands into the ratepayers' pockets.
At first, PG&E and Southern California Edison asked the Public Utilities
Commission to have California consumers pay the entire cost of deregulation's
risks. Their idea did not pass the smell or the laugh test.
Now the utilities look for a way to repackage their old proposal, including a
substantial rate increase. The rationale is that the utilities may collapse
financially. This threat is supposed to inspire Gov. Gray Davis and the PUC
to quickly put the ratepayer on the hook for the utilities' failures.
During the past year, dozens of utilities have merged all across America.
PG&E, for example, may not be worth much to its shareholders, but like AT&T,
it may be worth something to its competitors. This is the genius of the
American marketplace.
PG&E shareholders bought the stock, assuming the risk. Why should the
ratepayers be asked to insulate them from that risk? During this past year,
tens of billions of dollars of market capitalization were lost by various
Silicon Valley high-tech firms. Their shareholders do not get the benefit of
going to the PUC and getting a taxpayer bailout.
The ratepayer has already paid for this energy under a contract that
utilities struck with the people of the state of California. Any additional
payment by the ratepayer is a financial bailout. Any prudent investor would
ask what the return will be before handing over billions of dollars. The
ratepayer deserves an answer, as well as some equity or other consideration.
George Miller is a Democratic congressman from Martinez.


Bush Adviser Rove Owns Stock in Major U.S. Firms
The Wall Street Journal, 06/04/01

Saudi Arabia Sets Pacts With 9 Oil Firms
The Wall Street Journal, 06/04/01

Saudi Arabia in Pacts With Nine Global Oil Firms Energy: Deals to develop
natural gas fields and other projects, worth at least $25 billion, are first
major foreign funding in sector since 1975.
Los Angeles Times, 06/04/01

Enron is my spiritual teacher
The San Francisco Chronicle, 06/04/01

Gloom today, glut tomorrow
The San Francisco Chronicle, 06/04/01

INDIA: Rating firms may be judging India harshly-analysts.
Reuters English News Service, 06/04/01

INDIA: India rupee ends off lows, fwds close higher.
Reuters English News Service. 06/04/01

UK: Spectron trades UK's first post-NETA spark spread.
Reuters English News Service, 06/04/01

INDIA: Enron India lenders meet in Singapore on Tuesday.
Reuters English News Service, 06/04/01

INDIA: UPDATE 1-India's Prabhu says power reforms enter new phase.
Reuters English News Service, 06/04/01

Nigerian president slams US energy firm Enron for "poor performance"
BBC Monitoring, 06/04/01

India: India and Bush Administration: Beyond assumptions
Business Line (The Hindu), 06/04/01

Enron's Indian Creditors Seek to Salvage Dabhol Project
Bloomberg, 06/04/01

Enron Japan's Hirl on Power Deregulation: Commodity Comment
Bloomberg, 06/04/01

Bush Adviser Rove Owns Stock in Major U.S. Firms
By Jim VandeHei
Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

06/04/2001
The Wall Street Journal
A4
(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's chief political strategist owns hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth of stock in companies potentially affected by the
president's top legislative priorities, newly released federal records show.
Karl Rove, one of the president's most trusted advisers on almost every major
legislative initiative, owns between $100,000 and $250,000 of stock in Enron
Corp., Pfizer Inc., General Electric Co., Boeing Co. and Johnson & Johnson,
among other holdings. (Federal law requires public officials to report their
assets, income and debts in broad ranges only). All of these companies could
be affected by one or more of the policies or legislative initiatives on
which the president consults Mr. Rove: tax cuts, increased defense spending,
an industry-oriented energy policy and health-care reform.
Mr. Rove said yesterday that he has been waiting for several months for
approval from the Office of Government Ethics to sell all of his stock
holdings and roll the proceeds into a diversified account without having to
pay capital-gains taxes, as permitted by federal law. In the meantime, "I
have had to avoid being involved in matters that specifically and materially
affect my specific holdings," Mr. Rove said.
Mr. Rove said he filed his financial disclosure reports Dec. 30 and was later
informed by the Office of Government Ethics that he should sell all of his
stock holdings to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.
But the government ethics office, which couldn't be reached for comment
yesterday, has yet to officially grant Mr. Rove a certificate of divestiture,
which would allow him to roll his proceeds into diversified accounts,
according to White House spokeswoman Anne Womack. It appears that Mr. Rove
has lost tens of thousands of dollars as a result of the delay because most
of his stocks have lost value since the beginning of the year.
Mr. Rove insisted that he has been careful to avoid any discussions that
directly affect companies he is invested in, as federal conflict-of-interest
laws require. But that can't be easy for Mr. Rove, widely regarded as one of
the most powerful and influential figures in the White House. Mr. Rove serves
as the president's top political adviser and runs the administration's
long-term strategy team. He is also the president's top liaison to outside
groups, including corporations.
"He's involved in virtually every decision that is made here," says a White
House aide. It is unclear how many times, if ever, Mr. Rove recused himself
from discussion inside the White House.
President Bush, already under fire from Democrats for his administration's
close ties to industry, is likely to draw more scrutiny as a result of the
new disclosures of financial links between top White House officials and
major U.S. corporations, especially energy firms.
The White House disclosed the personal finances of Mr. Rove and several other
top administration officials at the behest of the media. It appears that as a
result of an administrative backlog, Mr. Rove is the only member of the
senior staff who hasn't been given the green light to sell his stock,
according to a White House aide.
The reports show that Mr. Rove was one of several White House officials with
a financial connection, past or present, with Enron and other energy
companies. Larry Lindsey, the president's top economic adviser who helped
draft the energy plan, received $50,000 from Enron in 2000 for consulting
work he did for the company, the documents show.
Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, who was chairman
of the White House task force that wrote the energy plan, recently sold tens
of thousands of dollars of stock in Enron and other energy companies,
including Texaco Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chesapeake Energy Corp. It is
unclear when the transaction went through.
Clay Johnson, director of presidential personnel, reported holding between
$100,000 and $250,000 in El Paso Energy Partners LP. And National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice had $250,000 to $500,000 worth of Chevron Corp.
stock and was paid $60,000 last year for her work as a director at the
company. Mr. Rove disclosed smaller holdings in BP PLC and Royal Dutch/Shell
Group.

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International
Saudi Arabia Sets Pacts With 9 Oil Firms

06/04/2001
The Wall Street Journal
A17
(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia signed agreements with nine oil
companies yesterday, a move that marks the first major foreign investment in
its energy sector since the industry was nationalized in the 1970s.
The expected deal, valued at $25 billion at least, involves the development
of three natural-gas fields in the kingdom, as well as a number of related
power plants, transmission pipelines and water-desalinization projects.
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is the
lead manager on two of the projects, including the $15 billion Ghawar Core
Venture 1 project. It also will lead the Red Sea Coast Core Venture 2
project. Royal Dutch/Shell Group was chosen to lead the Shaybah Core Venture
3 project.
The Western companies will help Saudi Arabia convert its utilities from oil
burning to natural gas, which would free up more of the kingdom's crude oil
for export.
The other companies selected were BP PLC, TotalFinaElf SA, Conoco Inc.,
Phillips Petroleum Co., Occidental Petroleum Corp., Enron Corp. and Marathon
Oil Canada Inc.
Saudi Arabia's state-owned energy company, Saudi Aramco, will be an equity
owner in the projects.
Saudi Arabia nationalized its oil fields in 1975 after tension caused by the
Arab oil embargo against the West that began two years earlier, and it closed
its energy exploration and production sectors to foreign investment.
Although locked out of the production of energy, Exxon Mobil has $5 billion
in refining and petrochemical joint ventures in the country, and it said it
is also the largest foreign purchaser of crude oil and other hydrocarbons
from Saudi Aramco.

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Business; Financial Desk
Saudi Arabia in Pacts With Nine Global Oil Firms Energy: Deals to develop
natural gas fields and other projects, worth at least $25 billion, are first
major foreign funding in sector since 1975.
From Associated Press

06/04/2001
Los Angeles Times
Home Edition
C-2
Copyright 2001 / The Times Mirror Company

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia signed agreements with nine
international oil companies Sunday, a move that marks the first major foreign
investment in its energy sector since nationalizing the industry in 1975.
The deals, worth a total of $25 billion or more, involve the development of
three natural gas fields in the kingdom and a number of related power plants,
transmission pipelines and water desalinization projects.
The Western companies will help Saudi Arabia convert its utilities from
oil-burning to natural gas, which would free up more of the kingdom's crude
oil for export.
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is the
lead manager on two of the projects, including the $12-billion-to-$16-billion
Ghawar Core Venture 1 project. It also will lead a second core project. Royal
Dutch/Shell was chosen to lead a third project. The last two projects have a
value of $7 billion to $10 billion each, Prince Saud al Faisal told
reporters.
The other companies selected were BP of Britain, TotalFinaElf of France,
Conoco Inc. of Houston, Phillips Petroleum Co. of Bartlesville, Okla.,
Occidental Petroleum Corp. of Los Angeles, Enron Corp. of Houston and
Marathon Oil Co. of Houston.
Harry Longwell, director and senior vice president at Exxon Mobil, said the
financial terms of the deal are still being discussed. But he said his
company is ready to begin the work when the final contracts are signed.
"The Saudis' expectations are extremely aggressive," Longwell said. "It's a
very tight schedule and in recognition of that, the ability to get this done
is one of the key reasons we were chosen to lead two of these ventures. We
already have a senior management team in place and are ready to go to work
immediately."
Saudi Oil Minister Ali Ibrahim Naimi said the companies are expected to
profit on returns from the exploration and development of gas fields with
more than 15% of the investment cost.
Saudi Arabia's state-owned energy company, Saudi Aramco, will be an equity
owner in the projects.
Saud said if the companies discover oil, they will be compensated and the
fields will be repossessed by Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia nationalized its oil fields in 1975 and closed its energy
exploration and production sectors to foreign investment.
Although locked out of the production of energy, Irving, Texas-based Exxon
Mobil has $5 billion in refining and petrochemical joint ventures in the
country and is the largest foreign purchaser of crude oil and other
hydrocarbons from Saudi Aramco.

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DAILY DATEBOOK
JON CARROLL
Enron is my spiritual teacher
Jon Carroll

06/04/2001
The San Francisco Chronicle
FINAL
E.10
(Copyright 2001)

THE BUDDHA SAYS that we take wisdom where we find it. Perhaps the Buddha does
not say that, but it's not a bad idea anyway. The Buddha would have said it,
maybe, had he not been saying the other things.
Our enemies can teach us lessons. Our adversaries can make us stronger. They
can be consumed with greed and contempt, their very breath can be toxic, and
yet their actions can open upward-flowing paths.
Take Enron, the energy company, or Chevron, another energy company, or El
Paso Natural Gas, yet another energy company. These organizations are the
minions of Satan. They pillage and they profit. They are in the ascendant.
Their enemies fall before them like cordwood. Ordinary citizens cower and
meekly hand over tribute.
And yet we thank them. We send our investigators after them and we pray that
their executives land in jail, but we thank them. They have shown us the
nature of our enslavement. They have defined the nature of our sloth.
We have believed the Big Lie. We have believed in the free lunch. We have
trusted those who would pander to us. We have eaten energy in great dripping
gobs. Did we know it was not infinitely renewable? Oh yes. Did we understand
that energy companies could create "shortages" whenever they wanted merely by
closing plants for "maintenance"? You bet we did. And did we confuse the
energy companies with charitable organizations and/or alchemists able to
repeal the laws of nature? We did not.
But it was more convenient to forget those things, and so we did. We have
busy lives. We must do the things we must do. The infrastructure is
everywhere crumbling, and we are patching it up ourselves. We are paying
bureaucrats with taxes, but the bureaucrats are inadequate, so now the spirit
of volunteerism is much praised.
Volunteers are people who do jobs that other people are being paid to do but
don't.
AND SOMEHOW, EVEN in a society as relentlessly materialistic as this one, we
forgot about our own checking accounts. Already seduced by the idea that
credit card debt is good clean fun, we decided to waste a lot of money using
energy we didn't need.
I'm not talking about using a washing machine instead of going down to the
river and beating your clothes with small stones -- I'm talking about washing
machines with quarter-full loads and settings far too powerful for the task
at hand. Right? Lights burning in unoccupied rooms. Appliances plugged in but
never used.
We pay for it. We send our wonderful money straight to the largest villains
in American commerce because we are too stupid to do anything else. You
wonder why they have contempt for us. You wonder why Dick Cheney believes he
can fool all of the people all of the time. Because he has.
Look: Last week the secretary of commerce suggested means-testing Social
Security -- that is, means-testing a pension plan. You gave us the money, we
kept it for 40 years, now -- prove that you need it!
Why did he suggest that? Because he can! Why did PG&E demand additional
compensation for its executives, who are moral dimbulbs and social criminals
under any fair definition? Because they can get away with it! They will get
away with it! You watch!
I AM NOT saying that we have no one to blame but ourselves. There are active
villains, and there are people who allow villainy to occur. Everyone in a
corrupt system is corrupt. The fools are the ones who don't end up with any
extra money.
We are the fools. If we understand our foolishness, we begin to be wise. We
send lovely bread-and-butter notes to Enron -- once we were blind, but now we
see. And we await developments, or create them.
--------------------------------------------------------
It would be foolish to mention SUVs. When the brain is ready, the ear will
hear.

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EDITORIAL
WASHINGTON INSIGHT
Gloom today, glut tomorrow
Carolyn Lochhead

06/04/2001
The San Francisco Chronicle
FINAL
A.19
(Copyright 2001)

WHAT GOES UP usually comes down. And few industries are more prone to boom
and bust than energy.
Imagine the news stories a few years from now: "Crisis hangover -- energy
stocks sink as prices plunge; But California consumers still stuck with high
bills."
"The energy industry is suffering its worst downturn since the supply glut of
the 1990s, as dozens of big new power plants come on line, and the
just-completed Alaskan gas pipeline sends natural gas prices to their lowest
levels in six years.
"The one bright spot for Texas generators is California, where consumers are
locked into long-term contracts for wholesale electricity that the state
signed at the peak of its blackouts in the summer of 2001.
"Sacramento lawmakers have appealed to President Daschle to help get the
state off the hook, arguing that California will never claw its way out of
its economic slump if businesses continue to flee to states where energy is
cheap.
"But top Enron lobbyist Gray Davis, a former governor of California, warned
Daschle that suppliers would have little choice but to go to court to enforce
the contracts the state signed."
Washington and Sacramento are agog with the energy crisis and bursting at the
seams with plans to fix it. But the one thing no one - - even
environmentalists -- suggests is letting high energy prices discourage energy
consumption or encourage new supplies.
"To economists, letting the price rise is the solution," said Paul Portney,
president of Resources for the Future, a Washington think tank. "To elected
representatives, having the price go up is the problem."
Political memories tend to be selective and short. But it was the energy glut
of the 1990s that contributed to California's blackouts, $3 gasoline and
$400-a-month heating bills. Likewise, high prices are now laying the seeds of
their own destruction.
As a story in the New York Times noted, an energy investment boom "promises a
cyclical increase in supplies that is expected to stabilize or reduce prices
in coming months, many industry executives and private analysts say."
Through much of the 1990s, there was a glut of energy. Fuel of all kinds was
really cheap.
How cheap? Adjusted for inflation, as cheap as in 1949, economists calculate.
Energy is the oxygen of the economy, and rock-bottom prices contributed to
the long economic boom. But low prices also caused energy production to slump
and consumption to soar.
People ditched their economy cars for SUVs. Houses got bigger, ceilings got
higher and kitchens sprouted industrial stoves with enough BTUs to melt
aluminum. Stores, offices and homes turned into summertime refrigerators.
Low prices discouraged energy development.
"Oil was so cheap for so long, that people were selling their refineries,"
Portney said. "You had virtually no exploration for new natural gas when
prices were at $2 a BTU."
As demand soared and supply fell, prices rose. Profits have grown so robust
that green fuels, such as biomass and wind, are becoming economically viable.
The oil industry is booming. Refineries are expanding. The long-delayed
construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska now looks likely. So many
power plants are under construction that the market may be flooded with as
much as 200,000 new megawatts by 2004.
Investments in energy efficiency -- from new-age superconducting transmission
wires to better light bulbs -- are suddenly looking attractive for the first
time in decades.
"High prices will dampen demand, high prices will encourage supply, and will
encourage people to make better use of what they've got," said Robert Ebel,
director of energy for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"So we're starting on the down slope. We're not very far down. When prices
start to decline, I can't say how far they will go. But they will decline,
because that's just the law of supply and demand. Prices decline, demand
starts to creep up again, there's less incentive to add to supply, and here
we go again."

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INDIA: Rating firms may be judging India harshly-analysts.
By Vidya Ranganathan

06/04/2001
Reuters English News Service
(C) Reuters Limited 2001.

BOMBAY, June 4 (Reuters) - Analysts have reacted with surprise to last week's
decision of ratings agency Fitch to cut India's sovereign ratings outlook to
negative from stable, and say there are no grounds to downgrade the country.
Fitch, which rates India's foreign currency obligations at BB-plus, a notch
above Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's, cited concerns about
fiscal policy, privatisation and deterioration in foreign investment climate.
However, economists speculated it could either be on account of Fitch
adjusting its ratings in line with other global agencies, or a fallout of
U.S. energy giant Enron Corp's threat to exit an Indian power venture over
payments problems.
Moody's and S&P said on Friday they have not revised ratings or outlook but
are disappointed with fiscal reform efforts.
Local currency and stock markets reacted nervously to the announcement, but
economists said most concerns were exaggerated.
"When the direction of reforms is positive and government flows are
improving, the outlook should not change," said Mohan Nagarajan, chief
economist at local rating agency CARE Ltd.
Even if the provocation for the rating review was the Enron episode, analysts
said the problems were specific to the power sector and will not affect the
robust foreign investment the country has been receiving.
"Enron was a bad deal, made on unreasonable terms in the first place and does
not reflect the ability of the government to pay its dues," said an economist
with a U.S.-based fund.
Some of the confusion arises from the various ratings assigned to India.
Moody's has retained a positive outlook on its Ba2 rating since late 1999,
while S&P has a stable outlook and a BB rating.
CONCERNS OVERSTATED
Analysts said none of the factors Fitch cited had deteriorated in the past
year, since it first rated India.
Fitch said India's fiscal-monetary mix was unfavorable, real interest rates
were high and there was the risk of a debt trap.
India marginally overshot its budgeted fiscal deficit in 2000/01
(April-March) to 5.2 percent of GDP, down from the previous year's 5.6
percent.
But laws to control government spending are awaiting parliament's approval,
there are incentives for disciplined state governments and a determined
effort at privatising state-run firms has begun.
Burgeoning fiscal deficits have persisted for a decade and public debt at 60
percent of GDP is high, but at six percent annual growth, India is one of the
fastest expanding economies in Asia.
"In terms of external liquidity, India is much stronger than its BB+ rating
while even its public debt to GDP ratio is lower than that of some Asian
nations," said P.K. Basu, chief economist for South East Asia at Credit
Suisse First Boston, Singapore.
Foreign investment has been pouring in - portfolio flows at $2.2 billion so
far in 2001 are at record levels and compare with $1.56 billion for the whole
of 2000 - and foreign exchange reserves are strong at $42.8 billion.
Interest rates and yields have also dropped, with the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) adopting an aggressive easing stance this year to prop the slowing
economy, and inflation is benign.
"The hardest initial steps are being taken and there is still a lot of
inertia, but soon there will be a willing audience and reforms can progress
faster," CARE's Nagarajan said.
But critics said the changes were still very superficial and structural
reforms that would spur long-term growth and demand were lacking.
"What the rating agencies have emphasised is fiscal consolidation, which
means better revenue streams, efficient expenses, user charges for public
utilities...we promised these three years back and haven't moved very far on
those," said Saumitra Chaudhari, economist with local rating agency ICRA Ltd.
"We still do not have a securities bill, mature debt market and our banks
have not cleaned up,".

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INDIA: India rupee ends off lows, fwds close higher.

06/04/2001
Reuters English News Service
(C) Reuters Limited 2001.

BOMBAY, June 4 (Reuters) - The rupee ended unchanged on Monday, recovering
from the day's low after a large European bank sold dollars, dealers said.
It had slipped to a low of 47.04 per dollar in early deals on dollar
purchases by a jewellery importer.
The rupee ended at steady at d47.01/02 per dollar.
Dealers said there was no impact of Friday's comments from international
rating agencies which had raised concerns over continuity of foreign
investment and dragged shares lower.
The currency recovered from lows around 47.085 on Friday, reacting to
international rating agency Fitch's revision in the outlook for India's
ratings on sovereign debt to negative from stable, citing worries about
fiscal policy, privatisation and deterioration in the country's foreign
investment climate.
Later, rating firms Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P) said they were
disappointed over the government's reform effort.
Moody's also raised a concern about India's Maharashtra state utility's
ongoing tussle with Houston-based Enron Corp and said: "the dispute indicates
that India's government may not be willing to live up to its contractual
obligations".
It added this would further deter foreign direct investment from coming into
the country.
The comments weighed on bond prices, which extended losses on Monday, and in
turn led to paying in dollar forwards.
"After a long gap, there was corporate paying interest in forwards today," a
dealer with a state-run bank said.
The six-month forward ended at an annualised 5.10 percent compared with
Friday's 4.95.
For a speed guide to Reuters treasury coverage, ((Bombay Treasury Desk, +91
22 265-9000 fax +91 22 264-1699, vidya.ranganathan@reuters.com)).

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UK: Spectron trades UK's first post-NETA spark spread.

06/04/2001
Reuters English News Service
(C) Reuters Limited 2001.

LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - Energy brokerage Spectron said late on Friday it
had traded the first brokered gas-electricity arbitrage, or "spark spread",
deal in the UK since the launch in March this year of new electricity trading
arrangements (NETA).
"Now that liquidity has returned to the electricity market post NETA, such
transactions are expected to become more common...", said Spectron in a
statement.
The deal was concluded between UK utility Powergen and U.S. energy group
Enron .
Spectron said the trade, covering winter 2002, was for 60 megawatts of
electricity at 21.42 pounds a megawatt hour and for 100,000 therms of gas at
24.85 pence a therm.
The winter period specified in the deal ran from October 1 to March 31.
For the electricity, one day was defined as 2300 hours to 2300 hours.
For the gas, one day was 0600 hours to 0600 hours.
The deal comes as the industry moves to create standard terms and conditions
for spark spreads.
Powergen is due to meet in mid-June with other traders, including Aquila
Energy , for talks aimed at agreeing standard terms.
"It is hoped that the market will soon establish standardised documentation
leading to a standardised product that will help promote liquidity in one or
more levels of efficiency," said Spectron.

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INDIA: Enron India lenders meet in Singapore on Tuesday.
By Sriram Ramakrishnan

06/04/2001
Reuters English News Service
(C) Reuters Limited 2001.

BOMBAY, June 4 (Reuters) - Lenders to Enron Corp's troubled Dabhol Power
Company begin a two-day meeting in Singapore on Tuesday to try and settle
differences over continued support to a controversial $2.9 billion power
project in India.
Representatives of some of the world's largest banks like Citibank , ABN AMRO
, and Bank of America, will be at the meeting. Indian lenders like the
Industrial Development Bank of India , State Bank of India and ICICI will
also participate.
Market analysts speculate that the meeting will attempt to forge a joint
stand on supporting the project which now produces 740 MW of power and is
slated to increase it to 2,184 MW shortly in its second phase.
But it comes against a backdrop of rising tension between Dabhol and the
Indian state utility, the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), which
is the sole buyer of Dabhol's electricity.
Indian lenders, who have lent the bulk of the funds to the plant, want to
continue supporting the project.
But they are being opposed by offshore lenders who want to withdraw their
loans. Loans of around $638 million of the offshore lenders are covered by
guarantees provided by Indian institutions.
The Indian lenders, fearing for their profitability if the foreign banks pull
the plug, plan to oppose any such move.
But they have been forced on the backfoot by MSEB's decision last week to
stop buying power from Dabhol and terminate its 1995 contract with the
company under which it agreed to lift the entire output.
The MSEB has complained that Dabhol produces costly power while Dabhol has
blamed MSEB for defaulting on payments worth $48 million.
Last month, Dabhol issued a preliminary notice to terminate its contract to
sell power. It has also filed for arbitration in London. This provoked MSEB
to haul Dabhol before a local regulatory body, the Maharashtra State
Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), which issued a temporary order
staying the arbitration proceedings.
The dispute has already affected India's image among foreign investors.
Last week, global rating agency Moody's expressed concern over slippage in
the Indian government's reform programme and cited the Enron's dispute as an
example that the country may be losing credibility with foreign investors.
"The dispute indicates that India's government may not be willing to live up
to its contractual obligations. As a consequence, this would further deter
foreign direct investment from coming into the country," Moody's said.
India's federal Power Minister Suresh Prabhu tried to dispel those fears in
an interview with Reuters on Sunday.
"India is always in favour of making sure that international contracts are
respected," he said. "There is no need for concern." ($1 = 47 Indian rupees).

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INDIA: UPDATE 1-India's Prabhu says power reforms enter new phase.
By Clarence Fernandez

06/04/2001
Reuters English News Service
(C) Reuters Limited 2001.

BOMBAY, June 4 (Reuters) - India's reforms of its sputtering power sector
have entered a new phase, with plans afoot to free up private supply,
overhaul debt-ridden state utilities and recraft tariffs, Power Minister
Suresh Prabhu told Reuters.
With investors' fears fanned by a squabble between U.S. energy giant Enron
Corp and a local utility, Prabhu said in an interview late on Sunday that
India is standing behind international contracts.
"Sanctity of contracts has to be kept," Prabhu said.
The row began late last year when the utility in western Maharashtra state
defaulted on payments of $48 million to Dabhol Power Company, 65 percent
owned by Enron. The 2,184 MW power project is India's largest foreign
investment, at $2.9 billion.
Prabhu has vowed to take Indian reforms in a new direction.
"Absolutely," he said in reply to a question whether India's reforms have
entered a different phase. The Power Ministry will now also focus on power
distribution, he added, besides its early preoccupation with generation
needs.
"In India unfortunately for the last 10 years...reforms policy was skewed in
favour of generation," he said. "We never really realised that distribution
is the more important part of the process."
Prabhu added, "We have now decided we will make enough structural changes in
distribution so that at the end of distribution enough investment is made."
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
A chartered accountant, Prabhu hails from the verdant regions of India's
western coastal strand, and chaired a co-operative bank that was one of the
country's largest, in terms of deposits, before his foray into politics.
An errant lock of hair straying across his forehead, Prabhu eschews the
Indian politician's traditional uniform of starched white handspun cotton for
the shirtsleeves and trousers preferred by the professionals who have entered
government, and whom local media call "technocrats".
Prabhu said India has decided to allow private producers to sell power direct
to consumers, lifting curbs that have hobbled the country's decade-old reform
effort.
He said the question of power affordability had spurred him to ask India's
states to permit third-party sales of power, which analysts have called a
stumbling-block for foreign investment.
"They cannot force a generator to sell power only to the SEBs, and that's a
major change we are trying to make," Prabhu said, referring to the states.
SEBs or state electricity boards are owned by the state governments, and
supply power to most of India.
India estimates that 100,000 MW of fresh capacity will have to be installed
over the next 12 years to meet its power needs. Most of the $200 billion in
funds that will be required will have to come from foreign private
investment.
But India's spotty reform record over the last decade has made investors
wary. Bureaucratic procedures, legal delays and political wrangling have held
up reform moves.
RATING REVISED TO NEGATIVE
Last week global rating agency Fitch revised India's sovereign rating outlook
to negative from stable, citing fiscal concerns, the slow pace of
privatisation and deterioration in the country's foreign investment climate.
Competing agency Moody's sees signs of slippage in the reforms, and Standard
& Poor's has expressed worries over India's budget deficit.
Prabhu said he wants to overhaul state power utilities by introducing
standard accounting policies, cutting transmission and distribution losses to
15 percent, and tackling crushing debt, thus helping to lure foreign
investment into the sector.
The poor financial health of the utilities, expected to run up combined
losses of about $6 billion in the 2001/02 fiscal year, has proved a hurdle in
efforts to draw private investment.
Prabhu said an expert panel examining ways to restructure SEB finances -
looking at technical, commercial and tariff issues - is expected to report
within a few weeks.
"For the first time we will be preparing commercial data which is
internationally accepted. We will be preparing technical data which is
internationally appreciable. And thirdly, we'll be creating an information
base which will be created by experts and then made available to the states,"
he said.
The utilities' transmission and distribution losses run to up to 25 percent
of the electricity they generate, compared to a figure of about eight percent
internationally, he said.
Prabhu wants to trim this to about 15 percent within two or three years.
"In the case of India, I am willing to accept a figure of 14 percent to 15
percent, because to bring it below that will be technically feasible but
commercially unviable," he added.
Other steps to tone up power generation include attempts to link the eastern
region with the rest of India, efforts to boost plant load factors through
modernisation of equipment, and to persuade people to use energy more
efficiently.
Prabhu said he is building political will to support these moves through a
programme to tell consumers why they can no longer get power cheap, or even
free, as many did in the past. ($1=47 Indian rupees).

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Nigerian president slams US energy firm Enron for "poor performance"

06/04/2001
BBC Monitoring
Source: The Guardian web site, Lagos, in English 4 Jun 01/BBC Monitoring/(c)
BBC

Text of article by Francis Obinor entitled: "Obasanjo chides Enron on Lagos
power project"; published by Nigerian newspaper The Guardian web site on 4
June
For failing to live up to expectation of the Nigerian government and the
people as regard its role in the Independent Power Project (IPP) initiated by
the Lagos State government two years ago, Enron, the American firm got a hard
knock from President Olusegun Obasanjo at the weekend [2-3 June].
In his conclusion, Obasanjo accused Enron, a major player in the electricity
project, of poor performance and bad faith. Ostensibly angry at the delay in
the project's full take-off and the 30 MW recently connected to the national
grid from the scheme, the president on the American Cable News Network (CNN)
declared: "Enron has played a dirty game on us. Dirty game in two ways."
Beside putting up an exorbitant price, the company according to the
president, also failed to comply with the terms of the contract. Continuing,
Obasanjo said: "The price at which they (Enron) have tried to sell power to
us has been very exorbitant. Two, what they told us they would do, they have
not done."
While refusing to disclose the firm's charges, Enron Vice-President of
Marketing John Ambler said the primary objective of the company was to get
the project on stream. "We have a project that is very close to coming on
line," he said, stressing that the company's desire is to see the project
work effectively in Nigeria, especially in Lagos. He added that Enron is
committed to the IPP and assured Lagosians that they would soon begin to feel
the impact.
The state government brought forward the June 2001 deadline it set for the
commencement of the first phase of the project when it fired the first 30 MW
of electricity to the national grid two weeks ago.
At the Government House on 23 May, Governor Bola Tinubu said his
administration and the contracting firm felt that there was no harm in
bringing the date forward and assured that another 30 MW would be added soon.
He noted that, contrary to expectations that the project would cover the
entire state at a go, it would be in phases and the focus for now would be
industrial consumption. "The concentration for now is not as private homes,
we would soon get there," Tinubu assured.
The controversial IPP programme, which the federal government had at one time
been accused of frustrating, has suffered several setbacks, including Enron's
initial plan to sell its shares to AES, another American company. Last April
was originally fixed for the project's take-off but the failure of Trevi, a
construction company in charge of transmitters, caused a shift in the date.

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India: India and Bush Administration: Beyond assumptions

06/04/2001
Business Line (The Hindu)
Copyright (C) 2001 Kasturi & Sons Ltd (KSL); Source: World Reporter (TM) -
Asia Intelligence Wire

SOON after Mr George W. Bush Jr. won the US elections, Indian observers
proclaimed quickly that a Republican administration bodes good for India. A
Republican administration was expected to not pester India about human rights
violations in Kashmir, not force it to sign the CTBT, and get tougher with
China.
Mr George Bush's decision to "drop by" the External Affairs Minister, Mr
Jaswant Singh's meeting with the American National Security Advisor, Ms
Condoleezza Rice, seemed to somehow confirm this false sense of euphoria.
This narrow thinking fails to understand the drivers of Republican ideology.
The reality is the Republicans care about a range of issues that will force
the BJP Government to make some difficult decisions.
Take the first issue of human rights violations in Kashmir. It is true there
are many isolationists in the Republican Party who, probably, do not care
about human rights violation in Kashmir so long as it does not affect them,
and is not happening in their backyard. But there is another powerful force
in Republican politics - the religious wing. This includes powerful members
of the US Cabinet such as The Attorney-General, Mr John Ashcroft, who are
Christian fundamentalists.
Mr Bush himself claims to be a 'born again Christian'.
The religious right is rarely interested in foreign policy; it mostly
concerns itself with moral and social issues such as abortion and teenage
pregnancy. But the few times it does intervene, it is when it feels a country
is "persecuting Christians". And when it does intervene, no Republican
administration dares cross it.
For instance, China is periodically identified as a country that persecutes
Christians. Christian missionaries and ministers are routinely harassed and
imprisoned because they are trying to spread their religion. Because of this
issue, Republican members of the Christian right in Congress have all but
declared a religious war on China, routinely opposing any attempt to improve
relations - including trade relations - with that country.
India, as an emerging power, is more carefully watched, and frequently
mentioned in the American press. Stories of Christian missionaries being
burnt alive and nuns raped are attributed to "elements associated with the
Hindu fundamentalist ruling party". In its latest human rights report, the US
State Department noted these acts with concern.
The Pope's mention of these issues to the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, was also noted in the American press. India is, perhaps, half a
step away from being branded as a country that "persecutes Christians".
A self-professed born-again Christian like Mr George Bush would quickly take
up the Christian right's cause, trumping all other bilateral issues. Human
rights may not matter to the isolationists, but Christian, and to a lesser
extent Jewish, religious freedom matters tremendously to a Republican
administration.
The second fallacy was that since the Republicans in Congress did not pass
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, they would not force other countries to
pass the CTBT either. But why are the Republicans are opposed to the CTBT.
The opponents of the CTBT feel that it fails to safeguard American security.
They frankly care little about Indian security. They would love to be able to
restrict India's ability to test and use its weapons. To them, nuclear
weapons not in American hands translates into an unsafe world. Unless India
manages to convince the Republicans otherwise, the Republican administration
is likely to tighten the anti-proliferation screws on India.
The third fallacy relates to a tough, long-term strategic re-alignment the
Bush Administration will demand of India. Mr Bush's foreign policy-makers are
unreconstructed 'Cold Warriors'. In the post-Cold War era, they are
desperately "searching for an enemy". They appear to have settled on China as
"the next enemy". Their next step is to search for "allies"
who rarely challenge their views. Thinkers in Washington and New Delhi
believe that India and the US are "natural allies". But such a decision has
an enormous range of long-term consequences for India.
To discuss just a few: Most of the Indian military's equipment comes from
Russia and the former Soviet Union. Allying with the US will be seen by the
Russians as abandoning them, and this could have an enormous impact on the
legacy military equipment. Recent noises from the Foreign Ministry suggest
India is also eager about Mr George Bush's proposed missile defence
programme. But this technology is far from proven, and during the decade over
which it may be developed (if it gets past Congress), China will most
certainly develop many nuclear weapons. These may, primarily, be a deterrent
against the US, but it will force India into an arms buildup it can barely
afford.
The Americans are reserving their missile defence system for their "closest
allies". India today is neither fish nor fowl - not quite a threat, but not
quite an ally either. It is unlikely that India will be able to convince the
Americans to give it the defence system.
Even if the Americans agree to sell it to India, it could never afford the
sticker price. So, before it rejoices at the notion of anti-China hawks in
the White House, let India ponder over the unexamined consequences.
The final issue is one that may precipitate in the very near term.
Enron and Maharashtra find themselves in a dispute that neither wants to
lose, and that appears to be rapidly getting shriller. Mr George Bush's
background is as a Texas oilman - and he is widely accused in the US of being
beholden to the interests of the energy industry.
In fact, they were among the biggest "contributors to his campaign".
The Enron Chairman, Mr Kenneth Lay, is a friend of Mr Bush's, and was
seriously considered for a job in his Cabinet. He is so well connected that
he was recently accused of influencing who is appointed by the White House to
regulate the energy industry. In the near term, Mr Bush could quite possibly
lean heavily on New Delhi to "make sure that Enron's interests are not
neglected". If New Delhi does not respond to his satisfaction, his opinion of
India, and consequently, his administration's dealings with the country, are
likely to be coloured far more than we think.
Giridhar Srinivasan

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Enron's Indian Creditors Seek to Salvage Dabhol Project
2001-06-04 08:41 (New York)

Enron's Indian Creditors Seek to Salvage Dabhol Project

     Mumbai, June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Indian banks that loaned money
to Dabhol Power Corp., the local unit of Enron Corp., will try and
persuade their international counterparts to keep alive the $3
billion project at a meeting of lenders in Singapore tomorrow.
    The two-day meeting will be the first between the two groups
of bankers since they met in London on April 24-25 to discuss an
escalating dispute on power prices that has pitted Enron against
the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, Dabhol's only customer.
     ``We will discuss how we can go about resolving the
problem,'' R.S. Agarwal, executive director at Industrial
Development Bank of India, or IDBI, said. IDBI is the biggest
lender to the Dabhol project.
     The outcome of the Singapore meeting, to be held in the
offices of ABN Amro Holding NV, one of the biggest international
lenders to the project, will be crucial to the banks, which have
loaned as much as $2 billion to Dabhol.
     Indian banks fear the Maharashtra State Electricity Board's
decision to stop buying power from Dabhol may strengthen
international lenders' resolve to terminate the project and invoke
government guarantees to recover their loans.
     ``Foreign lenders want to close the (Dabhol) chapter,'' said
Pradyumna Kaul, an activist with Enron Virodhi Andolan, a non-
government organization opposed to the project. ``They are eager
to call in their loans, even if it means taking a 10 to 15 percent
cut, rather than spend more on supervision and legal expenses
while watching the saga linger.''
     Local banks such as IDBI are most at risk as the Maharashtra
and federal governments have guaranteed only foreign banks' loans
of about $600 million to the venture.
     IDBI alone has exposure totaling 21.58 billion rupees ($460
million) to the project, including 15.28 billion rupees in
guarantees.
     Foreign lenders such as ABN Amro, Citibank N.A., a unit of
Citigroup Inc., Bank of America and Credit Suisse First Boston in
April approved Dabhol's decision to begin termination of its power
supply contract with the board. They are in favor of canceling the
project.
     India's government risks having to pay 170 billion rupees in
fines, resulting from guarantees it has offered on payments and
loans, if Enron pulls out of the project.

                             The Fight

     Maharashtra State Electricity Board Wednesday stopped buying
power from Dabhol as the dispute escalated. The board on May 24
told Dabhol Power Co. it was canceling its power purchase
contract, six days after Dabhol gave the board notice it was set
to pull out of the project because of the six-month dispute over
bills owed by the board.
     ``The MSEB's move has complicated the matter. We did not
expect MSEB to do this,'' Agarwal at IDBI said last week.
     Dabhol, 65 percent owned by Enron, and the board are in
dispute over 3 billion rupees in unpaid bills for December and
January. Others bills through March have been paid.
     The board has refused to pay the December and January bills,
saying they should be lowered to reflect a 4 billion rupee penalty
the board imposed on Dabhol for not supplying power at full
capacity on Jan. 28.
     The dispute Thursday prompted debt-rating company Fitch to
change its outlook on India to ``negative'' from ``stable.'' Fitch
said the climate for foreign investors has deteriorated.
     ``The dispute indicates that India's government may not be
willing to live up to its contractual obligation,'' the Economic
Times quoted Kristin Lindow, India analyst at Moody's Investors
Service, as saying. ``As a consequence, this would further deter
foreign director investment from coming into the country.''
     Moody's and Standard & Poor's have stable outlooks on the
country's sovereign rating. S&P has an investment grade rating of
``BBB'' on the country's sovereign debt. Moody's, like Fitch,
rates India's debt as junk at ``BB2.''

Enron Japan's Hirl on Power Deregulation: Commodity Comment
2001-06-04 06:29 (New York)

     Sydney, June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Joseph Hirl, chief executive of
Enron Corp.'s Japanese unit, Enron Japan Corp., comments on the
outlook for deregulation of Japan's electricity industry. He spoke
at the Coaltrans Asia conference in Sydney.

On Japanese government policy:
     ``The government does have a strong commitment to
deregulation, but there are some significant policy concerns''
including a ``greater than 80 percent reliance on imports'' of
energy.
     ``The market has been open a bit over a year, however not
much has happened. No genuine competition exists under the current
system. The companies there recognize that it will happen. It's
inevitable.
     ``The level of competition in Japan now is similar to the
U.S. in 1994-95, or Europe in 1996-97. Prices are about 400
percent higher than the U.S.
     ``To put it in perspective, I won't give the name of this
large chemical company, but it consumes about 600 megawatts. If
you compare that business with a company that's just like it in
Houston, Texas, the difference would be about $250 million a year
in the cost of electricity.
     ``For such an export-led economy, that's a difficult
situation to be in, and it's contributing to the overall malaise
in the economy.''

On the likelihood of a California-style electricity crisis in
Japan:
     ``Despite exploitation of California by the utilities, METI
(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) and others recognize it
was a problem of design, not competition'' in California.


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Date:    Wednesday, July 26, 2000
Time:    8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Continental Breakfast at 7:45 a.m.)
Location:   Hyatt Regency - Downtown (Imperial Ballroom)
  1200 Louisiana Street (lunch provided)
  (713)654-1234

You will learn about our various businesses, their products, services,
markets and strategies and how they fit together to make Enron unique in the
energy industry.  You will learn about our regulated and unregulated
businesses, our domestic and international markets, our competitive position
and our organization structure.

Members of the senior management team of the corporation will be there to
review these areas with you personally.  We will also talk about our culture
and values, what sets us apart from other companies in this area, what we
expect of employees and what we offer in return.

Please enroll by leaving a voice mail message at (713) 853-7181.  In the
event you should have any questions, please call Jeff D. Davis at (713)
345-8908.

We look forward to seeing you on the 26th!


How about my RRSP contributions for this year?

Chris


The information contained herein is based on sources that we believe to be
reliable, but we do not represent that it is accurate or complete.  Nothing
contained herein should be considered as an offer to sell or a solicitation
of an offer to buy any financial instruments discussed herein.  Any
opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author.  As such, they
may differ in material respects from those of, or expressed or published by
on behalf of Carr Futures or its officers, directors, employees or
affiliates.  ? 2001 Carr Futures

The charts are now in the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and they
should print clearly from Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or higher. Adobe Acrobat
Reader 4.0 may be downloaded for FREE from www.adobe.com.

(See attached file: APIMAIL.pdf)
 - APIMAIL.pdf


I won't do anything about this until you reach a consensus.

Kay

Fred Mitro@ECT
01/03/2001 06:48 PM
To: Kay Mann/Corp/Enron@Enron
cc: Ben Jacoby/HOU/ECT@ECT, Rebecca Walker/NA/Enron@Enron, Chris
Booth/NA/Enron@Enron

Subject: Exhibits - changes

Through my discussions with Rebecca I have discovered the following:

1.  Regarding the transformer, the contract counterparty is "ABB Power T & D
Company"

2.  The purchase price of the transformer ($786,000) was taken from the WLB
financing book and does not include any of the capitalized interest charges
or option payment (total $56,803) allocation that Global Finance has included
in the calculation of the Payoff #.  The full cost of the transformer would
be $842,803.

3.  The purchase price of each turbine ($14,072,000) was calculated as an
average cost based upon a spreadsheet provided by GE.  This price does not
include the $280,000 in change order costs allocated to each machine.  The
full cost of each turbine should be $14,352,000.  The $280K in change order
was picked up in the original payoff # prepared by Global Finance.

Ben has not yet reviewed any of the values in 2 or 3 above or the current
payoff # determined by Global Finance.  I will talk with him first thing in
the morning.  We will call you to confirm the correctness of these values.

Fred


Hello Karen,

Please find attached the market wrap for this week.

Thanks,
Monika


I wanted to wish each of you a Happy New Year and to also let you know that I will be on vacation through January 7.  If there is anything that you need Maureen, Elizabeth & Gus will be in the office on January 2.

Again, Happy New Year To All!!!!!!!

Ginger Dernehl
Administrative Coordinator
Global Government Affairs
Phone# 713-853-7751
Fax# 713-646-8160


Susan,

I just thought know should know - you have me hook, line and sinker!

Looking forward to seeing you tonight.

Craig


The attached imbalances will be discussed tomorrow morning.


Per Matt, I have entered annuity deal# 872229.1 (STWROCK paying LTSW $2 MM) due to the revaluation of index option deal #804470.  Deal date 11/15/01.  Please let me know if you have any questions on the annuity entered.

Thanks,
Fran
503.464.7973

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Law, Samantha
Sent:	Friday, October 05, 2001 9:16 PM
To:	Motley, Matt; Alonso, Tom; Fischer, Mark; Salisbury, Holden
Cc:	Postlethwaite, John; Chang, Fran; Dunton, Heather; Warner, Nicholas
Subject:	UAMPS deal transfer

Please note that there is a new deal entered today to transfer the BOM portion of the UAMPS deal from LT-SW to ST-WR per Matt's request. The deal details are:

Index-Option: 807382.1
Term: 10/8/01 - 10/31/01
(we use the same method to pick the hours as we use for the CSU option)
The MTM value calculated from this deal for ST-WR is $30,685.

For Monday strip:
Index-Forward: 807382.2
Term: 10/8/01 - 10/8/01
HE 11 - 10mws
HE 12-14  -  25mws
per Holden.

The BOM strips for the index-option deal #804470 in LT-SW have been zeroed out.

An annuity deal #807428 was entered for the difference between $2.5 MM (per Matt) and $30,685 = $2,469,315, for LT-SW Buy from ST-WR.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Samantha


Here is Staff's second set of data requests to the  California Generators group in WordPerfect and Rich Text  Format.
 - datarequest 2 to generators rich.rtf
 - datarequest 2 to generators.wpd


I will be circulating in the next few minutes a revised New Albany Analysis.  The only revisions that were made were to correct: (1) the cost basis (as of 3/31/01), (2) the monthly depreciation amount (which actually diverges from the budgeted amount) and (3) the spare parts basis.  I have double checked with Cris Sherman and Theresa Vos and they are in agreement with these numbers.  The total impact of these changes is a reduction to the PV Margin of $2,316,000.  I apologize for the mistake but hope that you understand that the mistake arose from errors in the information that was supplied to me.

Stuart


Texas' first football game is this weekend and I have tickets for each of
you.  I would like to leave around 3:00 on Friday to go to Austin. We will
come back on Saturday after the game.

Let me know today if you still want to go.

-Eric


Here is a first draft of an amendment agreement.  Please feel free to rip it
to shreds.


you're an angel (and, you're on the side of the angels).

Best,
Jeff


Tracy,
Do you want all corp request to come thru to you?  We get many requests that are not earnings related from Corp Development, RAC, investors relations, etc.?  I can also just copy you on schedules that I'm sending out.  Please let me know.  Thanks.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Geaccone, Tracy
Sent:	Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:17 PM
To:	Sommers, Jeffrey E.
Cc:	Tran, Agatha
Subject:	RE: EGAS 4th Qtr

Thank you.  Stan and Rod are looking to me to coordinate all these new companies we picked up.  Its easier to track if it all comes through one place.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Sommers, Jeffrey E.
Sent:	Tuesday, October 16, 2001 1:23 PM
To:	Geaccone, Tracy
Cc:	Tran, Agatha
Subject:	RE: EGAS 4th Qtr

Okay.

I didn't send Mark anything new as the number I gave him came from our 2nd CE with adjustments for the things transferred in and out of EGAS.

Agatha and I will coordinate with you in the future.

Sommers

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Geaccone, Tracy
Sent:	Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:29 AM
To:	Sommers, Jeffrey E.; Lindsey, Mark E.; Schwarzbach, Stephen
Cc:	Tran, Agatha; Hughes, James A.; Hayslett, Rod
Subject:	RE: EGAS 4th Qtr

Please make sure your numbers go through me or Stan before we give them to Corp. Corp's request for these things should be coming through me in the future.   Rod and I are meeting with Stan on Monday, October 22.  We would like to discuss your 4th Q numbers then if possible.

Let me know.

Thanks

Tracy

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Sommers, Jeffrey E.
Sent:	Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:18 AM
To:	Lindsey, Mark E.; Schwarzbach, Stephen
Cc:	Tran, Agatha; Hughes, James A.; Hayslett, Rod; Geaccone, Tracy
Subject:	EGAS 4th Qtr

Mark,

In response to your voicemail this morning, this is EGAS 4th Qtr per the 2nd CE.  It has been adjusted to pull out the items that have been transferred out of EGAS since the 2nd CE  ( Azurix International and South America Merchant ) and the transfer in of European Assets and the Middle East.   This does NOT include EPower which I understand will be transferred from Europe to EGAS in the 4th Qtr.   We are currently working on our 3rd CE and will send you those numbers when we are done.

Sommers  << File: EGAS4thqtr.xls >>


FYI.  I don't think our contribution is included, since I sent it to Doug
John.

---------------------- Forwarded by Rebecca W Cantrell/HOU/ECT on 05/22/2000
12:22 PM ---------------------------

"James Sarikas" <jsarikas@foster-fa.com> on 05/22/2000 10:34:24 AM
Please respond to <jsarikas@foster-fa.com>
To: "Kim M. Clark" <kclark@jhenergy.com>, "John Brickhill"
<hrknmtn@foster-fa.com>, "John Paganis" <jpaganis@hess.com>, "Greg Troxell"
<gatroxell@nipsco.com>, "Roxane Maywalt" <RMAYWALT@sablaw.com>, "Mary
Klyasheff" <m.klyasheff@pecorp.com>, "Simon B. Halflin"
<s.halfin@pecorp.com>, "Rebecca W. Cantrell" <rebecca.w.cantrell@enron.com>,
"Lori Marlatt" <lmarlatt@br-inc.com>, "Gregory J. Porter"
<GJPorter@midamerican.com>, "Gearold L. Knowles" <gknowles@schiffhardin.com>,
"Edward J. Grenier" <egrenier@sablaw.com>, "Curt Westerhausen"
<cawesterhausen@nipsco.com>, "Cecelia Largura" <cjlargura@nisource.com>, "Tim
Caister" <trcaister@nisource.com>, "Kirk Lavengood"
<kllavengood@midamerican.com>, "Steve Van Hooser"
<steve.van.hooser@enron.com>, "Dorothy Mersereau"
<Dorothy_Mersereau@br-inc.ca>
cc: "Bambi L. Heckerman" <Bambi.Heckerman@enron.com>
Subject: JAB Data Request Respones

Attached is final data request reponses by John Brickhill.

Jim
 - JAB Data Request Responses - ALL.pdf


Thanks

From: Tana Jones on 03/19/2001 05:57 PM
To: Louise Kitchen/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:

Subject: Note on NYMEX

Just a note in case some of the product abbreviations on the NYMEX calendar
don't make sense, they have what the abbreviations mean at the back of the
calendar.


This meeting takes place in EB2831.

Thank you
---------------------- Forwarded by Irena D Hogan/HOU/ECT on 12/07/2000 10:58
AM ---------------------------

Jeffrey C Gossett
12/07/2000 10:24 AM
To: Kam Keiser/HOU/ECT@ECT, Darron C Giron/HOU/ECT@ECT, William
Kelly/HOU/ECT@ECT, David Baumbach/HOU/ECT@ECT, Errol
McLaughlin/Corp/Enron@ENRON
cc: Irena D Hogan/HOU/ECT@ECT, Elizabeth Soto/HOU/ECT@ECT
Subject: 8:30 Meeting on systems

There is a 30 minute meeting every morning on the 28th floor at 8:30 about
systems issues from the prior night and to discuss what books were not
officialized.  I have gone to this meeting this week, and I think that we
should always have a representative in the meeting.  Here is what I propose:
We alternate weeks going to this meeting.

Week of :
Dec. 4   - Jeff Gossett
Dec. 11 - Darron Giron
Dec. 18 - David Baumbach
Dec. 25 - Will Kelly
Jan. 1    -  Kam Keiser
Jan. 8    - Errol Mclaughlin

And then we will start over again.
If you can not go,  make sure that someone goes in your place.

Thanks

Irena and Elizabeth -  Can you please add these daily meetings to the
appropriate calender?

Thanks


Just following up on the Monday conference call discussion yesterday with
Rick and others about nailing down the numbers and documentation so we can
feed the Hill information on the mistakes Governor Davis made last year and
this year on power supply contracts.

As I understand it, there are two aspects of this:

 1. The offer of Enron and others last year to sell power to California
utilities for 5 cents per kw.  Failure to accept these offers resulted in
higher power costs in the range of $15 billion, as I recall from yesterday's
call.

 2. The long term contracts that California signed this year after taking
actions and making statements that drove up the forward price curves are now
under water to the tune of $20 billion.

On both counts we will be pressed for assumptions and documentation to pursue
these arguments, which parallel the comments made by senior management in
Capitol Hill meeting last week.  We will work on back up on this end, but we
would greatly appreciate your assistance in this regard as well.

With Congress out of session starting COB on Thursday, we will need
information pulled together by tomorrow COB to get the final product in the
hands of congressional types and others who can use it on a timely basis.
Thanks.