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From:shona.wilson@enron.com
To:david.wall@enron.com
Subject:Re: DPR Summary
Cc:james.new@enron.com, chris.abel@enron.com, sheila.foo@enron.com,michael.kass@enron.com, sally.beck@enron.com
Bcc:james.new@enron.com, chris.abel@enron.com, sheila.foo@enron.com,michael.kass@enron.com, sally.beck@enron.com
Date:Fri, 27 Oct 2000 02:12:00 -0700 (PDT)

Dear David,

Thanks for your message. To make our request clearer, for the past two weeks
we have put out a preliminary DPR every morning at 8 am our time (seen by
commercial heads, Jeff Skilling, Ken Lay, RAC, anyone with access to the
DPR). All groups world-wide are able to provide us preliminary figures by 7
am our time for:

positions,
maturity gap,
VAR, and
P&L

This is the information that we would like you to provide as well.

I understand that you have some hurdles to get over to be able to provide us
these figures, and while you keep working to get over these hurdles, we would
be happy if you provide us the information you are currently able to (i.e. if
you can only provide P&L we'd like to start with that, if you can only
provide us with one commodities information we would like to have that).
Please remember that the information we are requesting is preliminary
information. We would expect that there would be some changes between what
you give us at 7 am and the final information you give us by 11 am.

Best regards

Shona





David A Wall@ECT
10/27/2000 06:57 AM
To: Shona Wilson/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: James New/LON/ECT@ECT, Chris Abel/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sheila Foo/LON/ECT@ECT,
Michael Kass/EU/Enron@Enron

Subject: DPR Summary

Shona,

Just to summarise the main thrust of our discussion yesterday:

Preliminary P/L due @ 1PM Local (7pm Houston)

As I understand, Sally is the sponsor of this project with the goal of
presenting Skilling with a DPR by 8a.m. the following day.
I have asked all mgmrs to assess how we can achieve this. We will discuss
this in meeting early next week.
A major obstacle that we face, is limited IT resource to re-engineer and
expedite our processes. This will require buy in of senior mgmt and
commercial business heads to reallocate resources away from current projects.
(James to discuss.)
Additionally, there are certain dependencies on depts in Houston, which are
prerequisite for DPR completion in London. Notably Continental Power has a
dependency on Portcalc IT support in Houston.
Shift work and 16 hour days are more difficult (not impossible) to implement
in London as the labour market is very tight and such working conditions
would make Enron very uncompetitive as a prospective employer. Bear in mind
that we compete directly with all the big investment houses for the best
talent. A decision to use shift's would have to be made at the highest level
considering the possible implications on the corporate image. This might
suggest that additional IT resource is the only feasible way forward.

I could easily say that we can do the preliminary p/l but I assume that we
wish to retain the qualatitive features of our reporting. Therefore I have
tempered my comments to reflect what I believe are real issues that we in
London will have to address. We will get back to you with our proposals.,
after we have discussed these issues early next week.

Same day DPR

This is the long term goal and is such a large project that it would have to
be sponsored at the highest level here in Europe.
James to discuss with Fernley & Mike.


Regards,

Dave