# SEA ROBIN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-10-21

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20120116  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2012-10-21  
**Published:** 2012-11-20

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3286 NATURAL GAS released, $475,000 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. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3286 NATURAL GAS released, $475,000 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: 20120116.

Operator ID: 18152.

Reported incident date: 10/21/2012 15:30.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ** THE REASON FOR THIS SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT IS TO CORRECT THE LAT. AND LONG. COORDINANTS PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED IN THE ORIGINAL/FINAL REPORT. **THIS REPORT IS BEING SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO PHMSA'S REQUEST, (DOCKET ID PHMSA-2013-0028), FOR SUPPLEMENTAL REPORTS FROM OPERATORS WHO SUBMITTED REPORTS FOR INCIDENTS OCCURRING AFTER JANUARY 1, 2010, WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) ``PIPE GIRTH WELD'' WAS SELECTED AS THE ``ITEM INVOLVED IN INCIDENT'' IN PART C3 OF THE REPORT. THE REVISED REPORT COLLECTS DATA ABOUT THE PIPE ADJACENT TO THE GIRTH WELD. (2) ``FUNCTION OF PIPELINE SYSTEM'' IS NULL IN PART E5F OF THE REPORT. THE REVISED REPORT COLLECTS THE FUNCTION OF THE PIPELINE SYSTEM FOR ALL INCIDENTS.** THIS SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE TWO RELEVANT SECTIONS IN PHMSA'S REQUEST HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND NO FURTHER ACTIONS WERE NEEDED.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $483,600 reported total cost, $255,822.342 in 1984 dollars, $626,299.332 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: `478966727f5765309fbbc16ef1a3287622b4a24239622f07298a10e8bd9d51e9`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T14:35:20.366Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-2d4ee913a397f35356bd1e5d`

### Source metadata

```json
{
  "recordKind": "pipeline_incident",
  "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering",
  "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering",
  "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present",
  "report": {
    "number": "20120116",
    "supplementalNumber": "16026",
    "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL",
    "receivedDate": "2012-11-20",
    "receivedDateRaw": "11/20/2012"
  },
  "operator": {
    "id": "18152",
    "name": "SEA ROBIN PIPELINE CO"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2012-10-21",
    "dateRaw": "10/21/2012 15:30"
  },
  "location": {
    "city": null,
    "county": null,
    "state": null,
    "postalCode": null,
    "latitude": 28.2605,
    "longitude": -92.5241,
    "type": "OFFSHORE",
    "details": {},
    "facilityName": null
  },
  "cause": {
    "category": "CORROSION FAILURE",
    "details": {
      "CAUSE_DETAILS": "INTERNAL CORROSION",
      "NARRATIVE": "** THE REASON FOR THIS SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT IS TO CORRECT THE LAT. AND LONG. COORDINANTS PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED IN THE ORIGINAL/FINAL REPORT. **THIS REPORT IS BEING SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO PHMSA'S REQUEST, (DOCKET ID PHMSA-2013-0028), FOR SUPPLEMENTAL REPORTS FROM OPERATORS WHO SUBMITTED REPORTS FOR INCIDENTS OCCURRING AFTER JANUARY 1, 2010, WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) ``PIPE GIRTH WELD'' WAS SELECTED AS THE ``ITEM INVOLVED IN INCIDENT'' IN PART C3 OF THE REPORT. THE REVISED REPORT COLLECTS DATA ABOUT THE PIPE ADJACENT TO THE GIRTH WELD. (2) ``FUNCTION OF PIPELINE SYSTEM'' IS NULL IN PART E5F OF THE REPORT. THE REVISED REPORT COLLECTS THE FUNCTION OF THE PIPELINE SYSTEM FOR ALL INCIDENTS.** THIS SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE TWO RELEVANT SECTIONS IN PHMSA'S REQUEST HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND NO FURTHER ACTIONS WERE NEEDED."
    }
  },
  "consequences": {
    "fatalities": 0,
    "injuries": 0,
    "commodity": "NATURAL GAS",
    "release": "3286",
    "propertyDamage": 475000,
    "estimatedOperatorCost": 0,
    "estimatedEmergencyCost": 5000,
    "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null,
    "ignition": "NO",
    "explosion": "NO",
    "evacuated": 0,
    "raw": {
      "FATAL": "0",
      "INJURE": "0",
      "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "3286",
      "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "475000",
      "PRPTY": "483600"
    }
  },
  "provenance": {
    "viewId": "27nc-rsge",
    "viewUrl": "https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge",
    "assetId": "2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8",
    "archiveFilename": "Gas Transmission & Gathering Incident Data - January 2010 to present.zip",
    "archiveSha256": "fe0b136ca4b00ac987a8bc2e195098accf910d97512c5fc3b59e62d9da5f674e",
    "memberPath": "incident_gas_transmission_gathering_jan2010_present.txt",
    "memberSha256": "b435f2a25718cf54c54e00294e6788c4f9c6860e02fb86355e75d294c243c4dd",
    "rowNumber": 1662,
    "rowSha256": "349ad57d241ddbac9ce2c30ee31080fd72f0bd70c3ac909b4c619c75f6996b0d"
  },
  "caveat": "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.",
  "operatorReported": true,
  "finalAgencyFinding": false,
  "flaggedAnalysis": {
    "dataAsOf": "2026-07-31",
    "flags": {
      "fireFirst": null,
      "significant": true,
      "serious": false
    },
    "standardizedCause": {
      "sevenCategory": "CORROSION",
      "sevenSubcategory": "INTERNAL",
      "eightCategory": "CORROSION",
      "eightSubcategory": "INTERNAL"
    },
    "costs": {
      "reported": 483600,
      "in1984Dollars": 255822.3424947146,
      "currentYearDollars": 626299.33192389
    },
    "caveat": "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": {
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/data_statistics/pipeline/PHMSA_Pipeline_Safety_Flagged_Incidents.zip",
      "landingPageUrl": "https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/data-and-statistics/pipeline/pipeline-incident-flagged-files",
      "catalogUrl": "https://data.transportation.gov/Pipelines-and-Hazmat/Pipeline-Incident-Flagged-Files/qdme-9bbm",
      "retrievalMode": "official_live",
      "archivedAt": null,
      "archiveSha256": "317e6a3e16d60b9b677efe391dc40258b5dd7ead83fb8bea74cb553cedfbbdec",
      "workbook": "gtggungs2010toPresent.xlsx",
      "sheet": "gtggungs2010toPresent",
      "rowNumber": 332,
      "rowSha256": "f0f365fc2790e992cb8b9f2e5fce99eabf696edc87bbe1e265a61f85c4d01c2f"
    }
  },
  "jurisdiction": "US",
  "operatorName": "SEA ROBIN PIPELINE CO"
}
```
