# TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-05-16

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20130049  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2013-05-16  
**Published:** 2013-06-11

Gas transmission and gathering incident in LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 250 NATURAL GAS released, $275,000 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 LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 250 NATURAL GAS released, $275,000 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: 20130049.

Operator ID: 19160.

Reported incident date: 5/16/2013 19:15.

Cause detail: OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE

Cause detail: ON MAY 16, 2013, THIRD PARTY AERIAL PATROL IDENTIFIED A SMALL RING OF BUBBLES APPROXIMATELY 5 FEET IN DIAMETER IN THE VICINITY OF TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE (TGP) COMPANY'S 526A-200 PIPELINE IN LOUISIANA STATE WATERS. UPON INVESTIGATION, THIS SMALL LEAK WAS CONFIRMED TO BE FROM TGP'S PIPELINE. PERSONNEL WERE MOBILIZED BUT PROGRESS WAS LIMITED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. THE REPAIR TEAM ARRIVED ON SITE MAY 18. THE FAILED REPAIR CLAMP WAS REMOVED AND A NEW CLAMP WAS INSTALLED IN ITS PLACE. THE PIPELINE WAS PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE ON MAY 23, 2013.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $283,170 reported total cost, $148,414.242 in 1984 dollars, $358,831.834 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: `11c6fe2e83149efdc190c0bce0c7c3497163ab5e8998cec30a34900792341dd7`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T00:02:25.586Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-3a92d7e95e1bac64e46de715`

### Source metadata

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