# KINETICA DEEPWATER EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-01-18 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20170020 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2017-01-18 **Published:** 2017-02-17 Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 555 NATURAL GAS released, $100,000 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. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 555 NATURAL GAS released, $100,000 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: 20170020. Operator ID: 39519. Reported incident date: 1/18/2017 14:26. Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION Cause detail: 14:26 ON 1/18/17, BSEE CALLED REGARDING NRC REPORT #1168876 IN THE VICINITY OF KINETICA LINE IN WC 165. REPORT CALLED IN BY ERA PILOT WITH BUBBLES AND 1 MI X 15 MI SHEEN. UPON RECEIPT OF NOTICE, KINETICA HELICOPTER COULD NOT FLY TO LOCATION DUE TO WEATHER. DSV WORKING IN THE SHIP SHOAL AREA WAS DISPATCHED, ARRIVED ON LOCATION AT 14:40 ON 1/19/17 AND CONFIRMED COORDINATES. DSV REPORTED 5' - 6' BUBBLE FIELD AND STREAKY SHEENING. ESTIMATE ON CONDENSATE SPILLED WAS 5 - 10 GALLONS. AT 14:54 NRC WAS CALLED TO UPDATE EXISTING REPORT AND TAKE OWNERSHIP OF LEAK. THEY TOLD ME I COULD NOT AMEND REPORT AND THAT I NEEDED TO CALL THE LOCAL USCG OFFICE (PORT ARTHUR) REGARDING OWNERSHIP. PIPELINE WAS NOT FLOWING AS PLATFORM HAD RECENTLY BEEN SHUT IN PREPARING FOR REMOVAL OF STRUCTURE. 1/20/17 RECEIVED CALL FROM DAVID YORK (PHMSA) REQUESTING THAT I CALL IN ANOTHER NRC REPORT TO CLAIM OWNERSHIP, WHICH I DID AT 08:31 ON 1/20/17 (REPORT #1169041). PRESSURE WAS REDUCED ON THE LINE AND DSV INSTALLED REPAIR CLAMP. DIVER FOUND TWO SMALL HOLES AT 7 O'CLOCK POSITION ASSUMED TO BE CORROSION PITTING. LINE WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO SERVICE AND HAS BEEN PLACED ON 2017 ABANDONMENT LIST. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL. PHMSA indexed costs: $106,665 reported total cost, $52,906.704 in 1984 dollars, $128,340.702 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: `3e1267c4e97bc2a7b2b085858d1ff9d0ac412e4c01cd7e800d836943c0b302e4` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T10:17:58.575Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-70ddebcd9668bbc625872078` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20170020", "supplementalNumber": "17353", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2017-02-17", "receivedDateRaw": "2/17/2017" }, "operator": { "id": "39519", "name": "KINETICA DEEPWATER EXPRESS LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2017-01-18", "dateRaw": "1/18/2017 14:26" }, "location": { "city": null, "county": null, "state": null, "postalCode": null, "latitude": 29.37489902, "longitude": -93.54406232, "type": "OFFSHORE", "details": {}, "facilityName": null }, "cause": { "category": "CORROSION FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "INTERNAL CORROSION", "NARRATIVE": "14:26 ON 1/18/17, BSEE CALLED REGARDING NRC REPORT #1168876 IN THE VICINITY OF KINETICA LINE IN WC 165. REPORT CALLED IN BY ERA PILOT WITH BUBBLES AND 1 MI X 15 MI SHEEN. UPON RECEIPT OF NOTICE, KINETICA HELICOPTER COULD NOT FLY TO LOCATION DUE TO WEATHER. DSV WORKING IN THE SHIP SHOAL AREA WAS DISPATCHED, ARRIVED ON LOCATION AT 14:40 ON 1/19/17 AND CONFIRMED COORDINATES. DSV REPORTED 5' - 6' BUBBLE FIELD AND STREAKY SHEENING. ESTIMATE ON CONDENSATE SPILLED WAS 5 - 10 GALLONS. AT 14:54 NRC WAS CALLED TO UPDATE EXISTING REPORT AND TAKE OWNERSHIP OF LEAK. THEY TOLD ME I COULD NOT AMEND REPORT AND THAT I NEEDED TO CALL THE LOCAL USCG OFFICE (PORT ARTHUR) REGARDING OWNERSHIP. PIPELINE WAS NOT FLOWING AS PLATFORM HAD RECENTLY BEEN SHUT IN PREPARING FOR REMOVAL OF STRUCTURE. 1/20/17 RECEIVED CALL FROM DAVID YORK (PHMSA) REQUESTING THAT I CALL IN ANOTHER NRC REPORT TO CLAIM OWNERSHIP, WHICH I DID AT 08:31 ON 1/20/17 (REPORT #1169041). PRESSURE WAS REDUCED ON THE LINE AND DSV INSTALLED REPAIR CLAMP. DIVER FOUND TWO SMALL HOLES AT 7 O'CLOCK POSITION ASSUMED TO BE CORROSION PITTING. 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