# SHELL PIPELINE CORP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-11-07

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20130111  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2013-11-07  
**Published:** 2013-12-05

Gas transmission and gathering incident in GRAMERCY, ST. JAMES County, LA. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 56 OTHER GAS released, $460,000 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 in GRAMERCY, ST. JAMES County, LA. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 56 OTHER GAS released, $460,000 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: 20130111.

Operator ID: 18273.

Reported incident date: 11/7/2013 10:28.

Location detail: 530+08.00

Cause detail: ORIGINAL MANUFACTURING-RELATED (NOT GIRTH WELD OR OTHER WELDS FORMED IN THE FIELD)

Cause detail: DETERMINED BY METALLURGICAL INVESTIGATION THAT THE ERW LONG SEAM HAD SOME EVIDENCE OF AN IRREGULAR COIL EDGE THAT CHANGED THE WELDING GEOMETRY. THE EFFECT OF THE IRREGULAR COIL EDGE WAS TO WEAKEN THE WELD. LACK OF FUSION / LONG SEAM

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — MANUFACTURING-RELATED.

PHMSA indexed costs: $568,463 reported total cost, $296,501.554 in 1984 dollars, $721,733.177 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: <https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `f5210a7183715ea6d362a895a8c9cb4e8ac4bed3425b848e7c0c9c582e35a3e8`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T22:18:50.285Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-105ca2590a97b2cb5fb1e6cd`

### Source metadata

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