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I agree with your concerns. I didn't go into all the specifics previously
because of the audience of the e-mail. This is the intended procedure for use of the dummy account: Both the East and the West load gas books into the Enpower system nightly (this is not one person's responsibility but the entire group's responsibility). Previously, the only message we get for this load is a success that all the books went somewhere in Enpower With the installation of the new 'dummy' account, the message will now tell us if one of the books was loaded to this 'dummy' account If an EOL bridge mistakenly puts gas deals in a power gas book that was not correctly mapped, the position would go to the 'dummy' account If an EOL bridge mistakenly puts gas deals in a power gas book that WAS correctly mapped, the position would show up in that trader's gas positions Depending on which load (East or West) has a book that was mapped to the 'dummy' account will determine which group investigates (with IT) what & whose positions are now stored in 'dummy' As you have indicated, manual processes do inevitably create errors. The perfect procedure would be for the book to have complete and correct set up prior to having deals entered into it. It would also be ideal if deals could not be entered into this book if setup was incomplete, but because this is an interface mapping problem to Enpower, the TAGG (gas) system does not recognize that the setup is incomplete. I am not under the impression that the 'dummy' account is a perfect fix; however, with the new 'alert' it will provide us better data than we had before and it will keep the unmapped positions out of the West portfolio. The only time the West would be affected by this change in the future is if a new power gas book is set up for your traders. I hope I have addressed your concerns. If I have not, please give me a call or e-mail me back. Thanks, Stacey (3-1870) To: Stacey W White/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Re: Potential Gas System Exposure does any of this impact the west anymore? who is going to be "alerted when positions are loaded to the 'dummy' account."? what's the procedure for resolving? what happens if eol dumps trades to a dummy account? what happens if the person who is watching the dummy account is out sick or on vacation or leaves enron or is asleep at the wheel? given the volatility of the commodities that we are trading and the fact that manual processes inevitably create errors (as is evidenced by a $7 million hit we took yesterday because one keystroke on deal entry was done incorrectly last summer) i think it's important to raise these issues. To: Tim Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: John J Lavorato/Enron@EnronXGate, Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT, Beth Perlman/enron@EnronXgate, Steve Nat/Enron@EnronXGate, Sheri Thomas/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: Re: Potential Gas System Exposure The mapping problem mentioned below is a power desk problem only. The mapping problem is purely between the interface of the gas and power trading systems and does not affect the book if it is strictly a gas trader's gas book. There was one instance when a gas trader's transactions were incorrectly bridged to a power trader's gas book through EOL. The root of this problem was with the EOL bridge not the interface mapping. The procedure to set up a gas book for power traders includes communication to IT regarding the appropriate interface mapping of the book. If for some reason the mapping does not occur, the position will be mapped to a 'dummy' default desk. We will be alerted when positions are loaded to the 'dummy' account on a nightly basis in order to investigate the problem and ensure that positions do no get lost in the system. If anyone needs to further discuss the problem we have been having and why it is only the power world that is affected, please give me a call. Thanks, Stacey (3-1870) From: Tim Belden 02/14/2001 05:25 PM To: John J Lavorato/Corp/Enron, Stacey W White/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT, Beth Perlman/HOU/ECT, Steve Nat/Corp/Enron cc: Subject: Potential Gas System Exposure For some period of time, various West Power desks have been the default desk which received gas positions for new books that were not properly setup in TAGG. I have worked with our risk team and the techology group to get West Power out of this problem. I'm happy with the result from the West Power point of view. I am writing to alert you that one half of the problem still exists. If someone does a gas deal and hasn't set up a new book properly and doesn't carefully track his/her position, the trade goes into a dummy book that nobody manages. Days, weeks, or months later you discover the trade and take the hit or the gain. I think that this risk is real because we were the ones finding the misplaced gas trades before -- not the gas desk with the misplaced trade. Now nobody will find them unless the gas trader realizes that some of his/her position is missing. These are the facts as I understand them. I'm sure that Stacey White, Steve Nat, and Monica Lande could fill you in with more detailed information. Let me know if I can be of further assistance. ---------------------- Forwarded by Tim Belden/HOU/ECT on 02/14/2001 02:18 PM --------------------------- Monica Lande 02/14/2001 02:34 PM To: Tim Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Fran Chang/PDX/ECT@ECT, Valarie Sabo/PDX/ECT@ECT, Samantha Law/PDX/ECT@ECT Subject: RE: Remaining problem with West tot Tim, Steve has described the problem accurately. Setting up a dummy book solves the problem for us, but not for Enron as a whole. If no one monitors the dummy book on the daily basis (which probably won't happen if there is no ownership), then you still have the possibility of positions falling into that book and never showing up in the book that they were intended. Why can't a process be put in place for the initial set-up of a book in TAGG? Monica To: Fran Chang/PDX/ECT@ECT, Monica Lande/PDX/ECT@ECT, Valarie Sabo/PDX/ECT@ECT, Samantha Law/PDX/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: RE: Remaining problem with West tot do you guys agree? ---------------------- Forwarded by Tim Belden/HOU/ECT on 02/14/2001 01:23 PM --------------------------- From: Steve Nat/ENRON@enronXgate on 02/14/2001 03:49 PM CST To: Tim Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT, Stacey W White/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Beth Perlman/ENRON@enronXgate Subject: RE: Remaining problem with West tot Tim, The root problem was related to the default mapping logic in the 'interface' job that moves the ERMS gas calc results to the portcalc results tables. If mapping logic is not set up for a new book, the job was defaulting the gas deals to the ST-PLT desk. The default mapping has been changed to a dummy ZZ_erms book, which will prevent the deals from showing up in the wrong book if the mapping logic is not updated. In reference to Beth's concerns... turns out this was a limitation in our production code, not an IT change to production data, so we should be OK on that front. The long-term solution would be to remove the hard-coded logic, set-up table structures, and maintain the mapping rules through a user screen. Given our other priorities, and the default logic change, we will not pursue this option. Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Belden, Tim Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:49 AM To: White, Stacey Cc: Perlman, Beth; Nat, Steve Subject: RE: Remaining problem with West tot thanks for the concise description of the problem. i should have cc'd you on the original message. your description is much better than mine. now that beth has a better understanding of the issue, how long will it take to get solved!? To: Beth Perlman/ENRON@enronXgate @ ENRON cc: Tim Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT, Steve Nat/ENRON@enronXgate@ENRON Subject: RE: Remaining problem with West tot << OLE Object: StdOleLink << The problem is not that we should enter a reversing trade in the system as this would misrepresent the positions across the board. The problem is that the position belongs to another book within Enpower. The users have no access to the screens which define where our gas books are mapped in Enpower; therefore, IT has to manually define the correct mapping for us. When the manual fix has not been made, we have true positions for one book mapped to another book. Stacey From: Beth Perlman/ENRON@enronXgate on 02/14/2001 11:14 AM To: Tim Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT, Steve Nat/ENRON@enronXgate, Stacey W White/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: RE: Remaining problem with West tot Tim, Sorry about this. A better question to ask is why are systems people manipulating data? Why can't the users put on a reversing trade? I'm having fits about IT resources touching production data and I can't tell you how many times we screw ourselves up because IT does this. I'll let you know the end result. Sorry again, but these practices have to stop! Beth -----Original Message----- From: Belden, Tim Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:59 AM To: Beth Perlman/HOU/ECT@ENRON Subject: Remaining problem with West tot words cannot describe how distressing this problem is. in terms of mis-reporting our risk, we are dropping mmbtu's from some other book into our book as mwhs. mmbtus go for around $10. mwhs go for around $400. why is this problem so hard to fix? ---------------------- Forwarded by Tim Belden/HOU/ECT on 02/14/2001 04:58 AM --------------------------- << OLE Object: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) << Fran Chang 02/13/2001 06:27 PM To: Tim Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Monica Lande/PDX/ECT@ECT, Valarie Sabo/PDX/ECT@ECT, Samantha Law/PDX/ECT@ECT Subject: Remaining problem with West tot Tim: Please note that as of 2/13 there will still be 1,321 MWhs of Nymex Swap position in ST-PLT book (COB) which is yet to be cleared out by IT. I have sent out an email to Norman Lee in IT and will follow up with him to make sure this problem is removed asap. (The "unknown" position of the -311,354 MWhs showing up on 2/12 has already been taken cared of.) Regards, Fran x7973
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