# TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2019-04-23 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20190057 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2019-04-23 **Published:** 2019-05-14 Gas transmission and gathering incident in BASTROP, MOREHOUSE County, LA. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.1 NATURAL GAS released, $61,898 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 BASTROP, MOREHOUSE County, LA. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.1 NATURAL GAS released, $61,898 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: 20190057. Operator ID: 19270. Reported incident date: 4/23/2019 8:10. Location detail: 58+1674 Cause detail: ORIGINAL MANUFACTURING-RELATED (NOT GIRTH WELD OR OTHER WELDS FORMED IN THE FIELD) Cause detail: ON APRIL 21, 2019 AT APPROXIMATELY 4:00 PM, TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS RIDING A FOUR WHEELER NEAR THE RIGHT-OF-WAY THAT HE OBSERVED SMALL BUBBLES IN A MUD HOLE. ON APRIL 22, METHANE WAS DETECTED IN THE AREA USING MULTIPLE LEAK DETECTORS BUT BECAUSE OF RECENT FLOODING, IT COULD NOT BE ASSUMED THAT THIS REPRESENTED A NATURAL GAS LEAK. ON APRIL 23 AT APPROXIMATELY 8:10, OPERATIONS PERSONNEL CONFIRMED A POSSIBLE LEAK WITH LEAK DETECTOR. OPERATIONS NOTIFIED PIPELINE SERVICES , THE LINE WAS ISOLATED AND PRESSURE WAS REDUCED FROM 660 PSIG TO 300 PSIG. ON APRIL 23, 2019 AT APPROXIMATELY 11:00 AM, PIPELINE SERVICES BEGAN AN INVESTIGATIVE DIG WHICH CONFIRMED A PINHOLE LEAK IN AN EXISTING WELD ON THE MLS 26-2. THE LINE WAS BLOWN DOWN TO 0 PSIG AT 4:29 PM ON APRIL 23. AFTER EVALUATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT ESTIMATED REPAIR COSTS MAY EXCEED $50,000, THUS, MEETING THE PHMSA INCIDENT DEFINITION AND THE NRC WAS CONTACTED. A SECTION OF PIPE WAS CUT OUT, THE LINE WAS PURGED AND PACKED AND PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE ON APRIL 29, 2019 AT 11:00. 6-28-19 UPDATE TO SUBMIT FINAL REPORT. UPDATED PART C TO INDICATE INCIDENT OCCURRED ON PIPE INSTEAD OF WELD AND SUB-CAUSE BASIS TO INCLUDE METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS AS REQUESTED BY PHMSA. ACTUAL COSTS ARE NOW REPRESENTED AND PIR WAS CONFIRMED AS REQUESTED BY PHMSA. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — MANUFACTURING-RELATED. PHMSA indexed costs: $75,464 reported total cost, $43,066.958 in 1984 dollars, $88,693.213 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: `2708e82ab61da4b54dd3dbee5963999feb5c85c8626809d3eda41301b6613cce` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-22T06:34:01.289Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-7fb93e588094aec0c8fcbf04` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20190057", "supplementalNumber": "32365", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2019-05-14", "receivedDateRaw": "5/14/2019" }, "operator": { "id": "19270", "name": "TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION, LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2019-04-23", "dateRaw": "4/23/2019 8:10" }, "location": { "city": "BASTROP", "county": "MOREHOUSE", "state": "LA", "postalCode": "71220", "latitude": 32.978699, "longitude": -91.814679, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "58+1674" }, "facilityName": "MAIN LINE SYSTEM" }, "cause": { "category": "MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "ORIGINAL MANUFACTURING-RELATED (NOT GIRTH WELD OR OTHER WELDS FORMED IN THE FIELD)", "NARRATIVE": "ON APRIL 21, 2019 AT APPROXIMATELY 4:00 PM, TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS RIDING A FOUR WHEELER NEAR THE RIGHT-OF-WAY THAT HE OBSERVED SMALL BUBBLES IN A MUD HOLE. ON APRIL 22, METHANE WAS DETECTED IN THE AREA USING MULTIPLE LEAK DETECTORS BUT BECAUSE OF RECENT FLOODING, IT COULD NOT BE ASSUMED THAT THIS REPRESENTED A NATURAL GAS LEAK. ON APRIL 23 AT APPROXIMATELY 8:10, OPERATIONS PERSONNEL CONFIRMED A POSSIBLE LEAK WITH LEAK DETECTOR. OPERATIONS NOTIFIED PIPELINE SERVICES , THE LINE WAS ISOLATED AND PRESSURE WAS REDUCED FROM 660 PSIG TO 300 PSIG. ON APRIL 23, 2019 AT APPROXIMATELY 11:00 AM, PIPELINE SERVICES BEGAN AN INVESTIGATIVE DIG WHICH CONFIRMED A PINHOLE LEAK IN AN EXISTING WELD ON THE MLS 26-2. THE LINE WAS BLOWN DOWN TO 0 PSIG AT 4:29 PM ON APRIL 23. AFTER EVALUATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT ESTIMATED REPAIR COSTS MAY EXCEED $50,000, THUS, MEETING THE PHMSA INCIDENT DEFINITION AND THE NRC WAS CONTACTED. A SECTION OF PIPE WAS CUT OUT, THE LINE WAS PURGED AND PACKED AND PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE ON APRIL 29, 2019 AT 11:00. 6-28-19 UPDATE TO SUBMIT FINAL REPORT. UPDATED PART C TO INDICATE INCIDENT OCCURRED ON PIPE INSTEAD OF WELD AND SUB-CAUSE BASIS TO INCLUDE METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS AS REQUESTED BY PHMSA. 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