# SEA ROBIN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-03-09 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20170030 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2017-03-09 **Published:** 2017-04-07 Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2110 NATURAL GAS released, $266,243 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. ## Document text Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2110 NATURAL GAS released, $266,243 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings. Report number: 20170030. Operator ID: 18152. Reported incident date: 3/9/2017 10:40. Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 10:40 AM ON 3/9/2017, AERIAL OBSERVATION REPORTED BUBBLES WITH A SLIGHT SILVER SHEEN IN THE AREA NEAR A SEA ROBIN PIPELINE IN THE SOUTH TIMBALIER 100 AREA. THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED (NRC #1172831), AT 11:03 AM ON 3/9/17 OF A POSSIBLE LEAK. WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE A SECOND FLIGHT ON 3/9/2017 AND OBSERVED BUBBLES WITH NO SHEEN AND BASED ON THE COORDINATES FOR THE LEAK, WE SHUT DOWN THE PIPELINE AT 11:30 AM ON 3/9/17. A DIVE VESSEL WAS DISPATCHED ON 3/9/2017 AND WAS ABLE TO ASSESS THE LEAK ON 3/10/2017. THE PIPELINE REMAINED SHUT IN UNTIL REPAIRS WERE COMPLETED. SUPPLEMENT/FINAL SUBMITTED ON 09/08/17 CREATED TO CORRECT PART A, QUESTION 5; LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE, QUESTION 15B; FACILITY RESTART; PART D, QUESTION 7B COSTS; PART E, QUESTION 1; CORRECTING THE PRESSURE WAS 753 PSIG NOT 780 PSIG, QUESTION 6D; ANSWER SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL. PHMSA indexed costs: $291,842 reported total cost, $154,450.769 in 1984 dollars, $350,349.67 in current-year dollars. PHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents` - SHA-256: `4590ae06899ba79e7c1d49033394a4cdf024bc8d40deef1347bd533468e290ab` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T09:47:57.537Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-0630feee01ae373ff1311c33` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20170030", "supplementalNumber": "17428", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2017-04-07", "receivedDateRaw": "4/7/2017" }, "operator": { "id": "18152", "name": "SEA ROBIN PIPELINE CO" }, "incident": { "date": "2017-03-09", "dateRaw": "3/9/2017 10:40" }, "location": { "city": null, "county": null, "state": null, "postalCode": null, "latitude": 28.67224, "longitude": -90.66455, "type": "OFFSHORE", "details": {}, "facilityName": null }, "cause": { "category": "CORROSION FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "INTERNAL CORROSION", "NARRATIVE": "AT APPROXIMATELY 10:40 AM ON 3/9/2017, AERIAL OBSERVATION REPORTED BUBBLES WITH A SLIGHT SILVER SHEEN IN THE AREA NEAR A SEA ROBIN PIPELINE IN THE SOUTH TIMBALIER 100 AREA. THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED (NRC #1172831), AT 11:03 AM ON 3/9/17 OF A POSSIBLE LEAK. WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE A SECOND FLIGHT ON 3/9/2017 AND OBSERVED BUBBLES WITH NO SHEEN AND BASED ON THE COORDINATES FOR THE LEAK, WE SHUT DOWN THE PIPELINE AT 11:30 AM ON 3/9/17. A DIVE VESSEL WAS DISPATCHED ON 3/9/2017 AND WAS ABLE TO ASSESS THE LEAK ON 3/10/2017. THE PIPELINE REMAINED SHUT IN UNTIL REPAIRS WERE COMPLETED. 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