# TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-07-16 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20170062 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2017-07-16 **Published:** 2017-07-25 Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, VICTORIA County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 14992 NATURAL GAS released, $2,500 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: not significant, not serious. ## Document text Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, VICTORIA County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 14992 NATURAL GAS released, $2,500 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: 20170062. Operator ID: 19160. Reported incident date: 7/16/2017 13:20. Location detail: MILEPOST 13 Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT Cause detail: NRC REPORT 1184248; 13:50; 07/16/2017; NRC UPDATE REPORT 1184422; 10:58; 07/18/2017; ON 07/16/2017; STATION 9 SHUTDOWN ON A HIGH LIQUID LEVEL ALARM; WHILE STATION OPERATOR WAS INVESTIGATING, BEFORE SYSTEM COULD BE BLOWN DOWN, A COMPRESSOR VALVE CAP LEAKED; NATURAL GAS WAS DETECTED BY GAS DETECTION SYSTEM; AS DESIGNED, AN ESD OCCURRED; STATION OPERATOR HEARD THE ESD IN PROGRESS; THE ACTUATOR OF A 24-INCH SUCTION SIDE VALVE FAILED TO CLOSE SAID VALVE; STATION OPERATOR MANUALLY CLOSED VALVE; 14,992 MCF OF NATURAL GAS WAS RELEASED TO ATMOSPHERE; STATION WAS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN OFF LINE; NECESSARY REPAIRS WERE MADE; STATION 9 RETURNED TO SERVICE ON 07/17/2017; APPROXIMATELY 18:30 HOURS; PIR OF THE 24-INCH YARD PIPING CONTAINING SAID VALVE IS 454 FEET; PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT. PHMSA indexed costs: $51,575 reported total cost, $47,658.452 in 1984 dollars, $60,237.635 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: `ae47bd24dbebeb4e288ec80ea723b754b4a6b6d33b1d72a1474db5786c3532c0` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T06:52:45.585Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-478183d7754d7dfd382cc794` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20170062", "supplementalNumber": "17404", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2017-07-25", "receivedDateRaw": "7/25/2017" }, "operator": { "id": "19160", "name": "TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY" }, "incident": { "date": "2017-07-16", "dateRaw": "7/16/2017 13:20" }, "location": { "city": "Not Within a Municipality", "county": "VICTORIA", "state": "TX", "postalCode": "77905", "latitude": 28.6999223, "longitude": -96.9433878, "type": "OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "MILEPOST 13" }, "facilityName": "STATION 9 - VICTORIA COMPRESSOR STATION" }, "cause": { "category": "EQUIPMENT FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT", "NARRATIVE": "NRC REPORT 1184248; 13:50; 07/16/2017; NRC UPDATE REPORT 1184422; 10:58; 07/18/2017; ON 07/16/2017; STATION 9 SHUTDOWN ON A HIGH LIQUID LEVEL ALARM; WHILE STATION OPERATOR WAS INVESTIGATING, BEFORE SYSTEM COULD BE BLOWN DOWN, A COMPRESSOR VALVE CAP LEAKED; NATURAL GAS WAS DETECTED BY GAS DETECTION SYSTEM; AS DESIGNED, AN ESD OCCURRED; STATION OPERATOR HEARD THE ESD IN PROGRESS; THE ACTUATOR OF A 24-INCH SUCTION SIDE VALVE FAILED TO CLOSE SAID VALVE; STATION OPERATOR MANUALLY CLOSED VALVE; 14,992 MCF OF NATURAL GAS WAS RELEASED TO ATMOSPHERE; STATION WAS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN OFF LINE; NECESSARY REPAIRS WERE MADE; STATION 9 RETURNED TO SERVICE ON 07/17/2017; APPROXIMATELY 18:30 HOURS; PIR OF THE 24-INCH YARD PIPING CONTAINING SAID VALVE IS 454 FEET;" } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "14992", "propertyDamage": 2500, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 350, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "NO", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": 0, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "14992", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "2500", "PRPTY": "51575" } }, "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": 1081, "rowSha256": "012698439c3f5a7367fe06c9f8357601d8a73d3effa08b5b5805e983ef8209af" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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