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Transredes Oil Spills
Oruru- the Bolivian Superintendence of Hydrocarbons fined Transredes $114,000 for failing to conduct proper maintenance to the OSSA-2 pipeline resulting in the January 30,2000 oil release. The Parotani and Chorety river oil spills have been cleaned up. At Chorety the river was open to normal use. Drinking water is no longer being delivered to the communities since the river water has passed drinking water quality analytical tests. Bolivian regulatory agency visited the Parotani site and found additional contamination. A crew was sent to clean up the newly found contamination. Transredes at the request of the Bolivian Forestry Department planted 350 trees in this area. Houston Non-Attainment Study - Marc Phillips is putting together information on the economic impact of the proposed Houston non-attainment regulations on the Enron methanol plant for the Business Coalition for Clean Air (BCCA) economic study. The information will be submitted to the BCCA consultant by mid-September. The reciprocating engines and reformer at the methanol plant will be required to be controlled in 2003 and 2004. List of International Environmental Emergency Responders D Ronkanein conducted a telephone and internet search. Most responders identified were USA based. This list will be reviewed with other Enron entities for final selection to enter into a service agreements with qualified emergency response companies. Transredes EHS Organization - Henry Van and Greg Marino met with Peter Weidler to discuss approaches for assessing the EHS management system for Transredes. ENA - Honey Lake (California) Power Facility- an employee was burned in a flash fire ,presumably caused by wood chip dust ignited by a electric spark, while monitoring the hopper loading operation. Scott Watson is assisting plant management in the investigation and with CalOSHA visits to the facility. Lagos Emergency Power Plant - the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process begins in 2 weeks. A waiver from Nigeria was granted to begin work on power barges now - while EIA is under development. Expect EIA completion this fall. Nine barges are being refurbished one at a time on site and will be put into service as the refurbishing is completed. Water injection is required to reduce NOx to conform to World Bank standards. The water treatment plant will completed by about the time that the 7th barge is place into service. Then the 8th and 9th and the already operating barges will receive water injection. As a result of negotiations with Nigeria the barges will use natural gas to fuel the generators at a new site immediately adjacent to an existing power plant. Metgas Pipeline - Joe Kolb reviewed and provided comments to Paul Perisho on the draft environmental management plan (EMP ENEL, Nicaragua - Mike Fuentes completed the site visits for the environmental due diligence this week. An executive summary and preliminary cost estimate is expected early next week. Annual Report - The mark up draft is ready for review. Photos were not acceptable and waiting for Ken Lay signature the chairman statement. A photo session for internal, operations and field EHS subjects scheduled for Tuesday. The web version of the report (without recently added photos) will be ready for intranet posting by mid week. When the additional photos have been inserted, a new report will be posted.
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