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100.Dominion 2003
On the Cover
Top row, left to right:
1. Cleveland is headquarters
for Dominion East Ohio,
which serves about 1.2 mil-
lion customers.
2. Dominion’s Cove Point
LNG import terminal has
docks for inbound tankers,
LNG storage tanks, vaporiz-
ers, and other equipment
to convert LNG from liquid
back into natural gas.
3. At Surry Power Station, the
new vessel head is upended
and readied to be lowered.
2nd row, left to right:
1. Roy Hollowell and
Steve Chafin study circuit
maps at the Norfolk
Operations Center during
Isabel restoration efforts.
2. Dominion Generation
installed the last new reactor
vessel head at Surry Power
Station in the fall.
3rd row, left to right:
1. Sonora Field in west Texas
has more than 3,800 produc-
ing wells.
2. Crews from 21 different
mutual-aid companies and 25
contractors helped Dominion
crews restore power to cus-
tomers after Hurricane Isabel.
3. Potable water is made
on site for workers at
Dominion’s West Cameron
100 shelf discovery in the
Gulf of Mexico. Mike
McNeely, senior electrician,
adjusts watermaker controls.
4. Elwood Power Station
outside Chicago sells its out-
put under contract.
4th row, left to right:
1. The Devils Tower spar
platform has been installed
in the deepwater of the Gulf
of Mexico and is expected
to begin production in 2004.
2. State Line Power Station
3. Fuel diversity is an impor-
tant advantage at Dominion
Generation, which includes
not only coal, but natural gas,
nuclear power and hydro-
electric stations in its fleet.
5th row, left to right:
1. Dominion’s Customer Call
Centers handled a record-
breaking 12,831,225 calls
in 2003 due to Isabel.
Tresha McLean works at the
Richmond center.
2. Switching stations at
each Dominion generating
station transform voltage so
electricity can travel through
the company’s 6,100-mile
transmission system to its
2.2 million electric customers.
3. Dominion plans to join
a regional transmission orga-
nization to promote more
efficient regional transmission
coordination.
Bottom row, left to right:
1. Dominion Generation
placed a 545-megawatt
combined-cycle unit at
its Possum Point Power Station
in Northern Virginia into
operation July 1.
2. LNG is pumped from
ships at Cove Point’s offshore
dock through a series of
pipes to insulated storage
tanks. A portion of the pipes
are underwater.
3. Aldo Wiggins, under-
ground lineman in Virginia
Beach, is still able to smile
during power restoration
after Isabel.
4. Dominion Cove Point has
a storage capacity of 5 bil-
lion cubic feet (BCF) and
a daily send-out capacity of
1 BCF — enough energy to
run about 3.4 million homes
every day.