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Dan, Thanks so much for sending this to me as I had not heard the details of
our employees' incredible response to the Genesis leak. Talk about "going the second mile" - I am so proud to say that I am in the same company as they are! We need to feature this in our next EOTT newsletter and nominate one or more employees for the Enron annual Chairman's award. Dan Cole 01/21/2000 02:52 PM To: Michael Burke/Houston/Eott@Eott, Dana Gibbs/Houston/Eott@Eott cc: Subject: Sunday's Performance In cleaning out my email inbox, I ran across this email which I had intended to forward to both of you. If you will recall, recent field information indicated the expense of cleaning up this leak had already exceeded $9 million by 1/7/00. Luckily this leak wasn't ours. Our employees responded quickly and provided what assistance they could to Genesis until the Emergency Responder arrived. ---------------------- Forwarded by Dan Cole/Remote/Eott on 01/21/2000 02:51 PM --------------------------- Lewis Herrington 12/22/99 09:49 AM To: Walter Norton/Remote/Eott@Eott, Willard Etheridge/Remote/Eott@Eott, Rick McMichael/Remote/Eott@Eott, Derry Butler/Remote/Eott@Eott cc: Dan Cole/Remote/Eott@Eott Subject: Sunday's Performance PLEASE SEE THAT EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN LAST MONDAY'S EVENT GETS A COPY OF THIS MEMO. Your participation in Genesis's Leak this past Monday showed (again) that you are the best team and most knowledgeable work force in this business. Job well done. I don't no all that each of you did as individuals but I heard tales of some of you wading in the cold river water almost to your waist to get a containment boom across the river. Others hurriedly walked right-of-way to determine the source of the spill. I'm sure I'll hear more about individual efforts as time goes on. No matter what your individual assignment might have been I'm sure you handled it well. The elapsed time from the time we were notified until the source of the leak was found, dug out and a boom placed across the river was approximately 3 1/2 hours. From the actual time the track hoe and spill trailer left Lumberton was 1 hour and 45 minutes. Taking all things into consideration, this is an outstanding accomplishment. I know that each of you who were working at the actual leak site saw a big difference in how you handle situations like this verses how others on site were handling the same situation. Until you arrived, know one had made any attempt to find and stop the source of the spill. I understand from some sources crude was known to be in the Leaf River at 7am. Actual confirmation, it was known to be in the river at 10am. This meant for several hours, crude continued to flow into the swamp toward the river unchecked. I also understand after you exposed the pipe, found the leak in Genesis's Pipeline. Genesis or the contractor working for Genesis, I'm not clear on which, shut down to have a "Granola Bar" with crude still flowing into the swamp toward the river. If it cost $500,000.00 to clean up the spill (cost could go much higher) and Genesis lost 1700 barrels, the cost to clean up this spill will be $294.00 per barrel. I wonder how many barrels went into the swamp while the "Granola Bars" were being eaten. Don't know, but I'll bet this made them some of the most expensive "Granola Bars" ever eaten. I have not said the above to belittle Genesis or anyone working for them but merle to point out the difference in "you" and "them" and to make sure that each of you know, I consider each of you to be the very best in this profession and to make absolutely sure you know I appreciate each of you and EOTT, our Company, appreciates you. Merry Christmas and God Bless Lewis
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