# TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-01-04

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20180018  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2018-01-04  
**Published:** 2018-01-19

Gas transmission and gathering incident in YOUNGSVILLE, LAFAYETTE County, LA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 8100 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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 YOUNGSVILLE, LAFAYETTE County, LA. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 8100 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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: 20180018.

Operator ID: 19270.

Reported incident date: 1/4/2018 9:45.

Location detail: 40.1

Cause detail: TEMPERATURE

Cause detail: SENSING LINE FOR PILOT OPERATED RELIEF VALVE; IT WAS FROZEN DUE TO EXTREMELY LONG PERIOD OF SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES. LOCAL TECHNICIANS WERE ONSITE WHEN RELIEF VALVE OPENED AND IMMEDIATELY RESPONDED TO CLOSE VALVE. THERE WAS NO COST ASSOCIATED WITH EMERGENCY RESPONSE BECAUSE EMPLOYEES WERE ALREADY ONSITE AT TIME OF INCIDENT.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — TEMPERATURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $22,616 reported total cost, $21,118.96 in 1984 dollars, $25,930.875 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: `6a8db1d2fbad8bbbb9677935db0ec9e6fc68913849f693b8eb91275101423ab1`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T18:03:08.651Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-68cef7214c7634c2723a249d`

### Source metadata

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