# KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-10-16

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20140118  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2014-10-16  
**Published:** 2014-11-13

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 9 NATURAL GAS released, $22,500 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. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 9 NATURAL GAS released, $22,500 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: 20140118.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 10/16/2014 12:53.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: WHILE COMPANY PERSONNEL WERE PATROLLING THIS PIPELINE TO MONITOR A LEAK REPORTED 10/11/14, THEY IDENTIFIED A SECOND LOCATION GAS RELEASE. THE PIPELINE WAS ALREADY IN THE PROCESS OF BEING BLOWN DOWN AND REMOVED FROM SERVICE. THIS LINE WILL BE PREPARED FOR ABANDONMENT. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT WAS CREATED TO CORRECT THE SMYS PROVIDED BY OUR PIPELINE ENGINEER RICHARD SACCO, PE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $28,500 reported total cost, $15,106.644 in 1984 dollars, $34,213.221 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: `5ce2210a942e563bb50102fc48bd3ceae34a0db281a0f82634b92657ef65b8f0`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-27T03:20:55.548Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-5c55ff333bae6eada1f82041`

### Source metadata

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