# ANR PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-01-30

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20120021  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2012-01-30  
**Published:** 2012-02-24

Gas transmission and gathering incident in LINEVILLE, WAYNE County, IA. Reported cause: INCORRECT OPERATION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 17020 NATURAL GAS released, $5,000 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 LINEVILLE, WAYNE County, IA. Reported cause: INCORRECT OPERATION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 17020 NATURAL GAS released, $5,000 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: 20120021.

Operator ID: 405.

Reported incident date: 1/30/2012 9:00.

Location detail: 35

Cause detail: OTHER INCORRECT OPERATION

Cause detail: ANR'S LINEVILLE COMPRESSOR STATION EXPERIENCED AN ESD EVENT AT APPROXIMATELY 6:30 AM ON JANUARY 30TH 2012. THE INITIAL CAUSE OF THE ESD WAS A FAILED COPPER OIL LINE THAT CAUSED A FIRE. THE FIRE DETECTION RESULTED IN THE ESD OF THE COMPRESSOR STATION. DURING THE STATION ISOLATION AND BLOW-DOWN IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT ONE OF THE STATION ISOLATION VALVES WAS NOT IN THE PROPER OPERATING POSITION, RESULTING A REPORTABLE GAS RELEASE. THE VENTING OF GAS WAS STOPPED BY FIELD PERSONAL AT APPROXIMATELY 7:00 AM.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: INCORRECT OPERATION — OTHER INCORRECT OPERATION.

PHMSA indexed costs: $115,000 reported total cost, $91,410.014 in 1984 dollars, $121,993.498 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: `48f355a319f1c6399ce2659fe27730d24dac0a55e87446b47df8fe3f3ab22bc0`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T23:34:19.838Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-46f8c4c2eb978ebbf50e83e2`

### Source metadata

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