# KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-11-09 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150141 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2015-11-09 **Published:** 2015-12-01 Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 450 NATURAL GAS released, $125,000 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, 450 NATURAL GAS released, $125,000 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: 20150141. Operator ID: 38987. Reported incident date: 11/9/2015 16:58. Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION Cause detail: OVERFLIGHT OF THE AREA BY BSEE INSPECTOR IDENTIFIED A LEAK IN THE VICINITY OF KINETICA'S 523M-2900 PIPELINE. IT WAS TOO LATE TO FLY TO THE LOCATION, SO KINETICA PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED THE NEXT AM TO ISOLATE THE PIPELINE. AT 11:00 AM, PRODUCTION WAS SHUT-IN AND PLATFORM VALVE CLOSED TO ISOLATE THE PIPELINE. DIVE VESSEL WAS PROCURED AND ARRIVED ON SITE ON 11/12 TO CLOSE SUB-SEA VALVE. WEATHER (ROUGH SEAS) PROHIBITED THE REPAIR UNTIL 11/30. UPON HAVING CALMER WEATHER, DIVE VESSEL WAS DISPATCHED TO LOCATION. DIVER EXCAVATED LEAK AREA AND PREPARED PIPELINE FOR INSTALLATION OF REPAIR CLAMP. DIVER IDENTIFIED A SMALL PINHOLE LEAK AT THE 6:00 POSITION. REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED. DIVER OPENED SUB-SEA VALVE. KINETICA PERSONNEL OPENED PLATFORM VALVE TO ALLOW PRODUCTION TO COMMENCE. AREA WAS MONITORED BY DIVE VESSEL AS PRESSURE INCREASED TO NORMAL OPERATING PRESSURE. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL. PHMSA indexed costs: $130,900 reported total cost, $66,051.194 in 1984 dollars, $161,633.277 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: `5ffc7d48e3086d975f3889d0a22de36a948f47f1c4bd89c184a0380070572b86` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T09:49:12.074Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-8f8cf501c5585c9345c86d8a` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20150141", "supplementalNumber": "17037", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2015-12-01", "receivedDateRaw": "12/1/2015" }, "operator": { "id": "38987", "name": "KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2015-11-09", "dateRaw": "11/9/2015 16:58" }, "location": { "city": null, "county": null, "state": null, "postalCode": null, "latitude": 28.651944, "longitude": -90.991667, "type": "OFFSHORE", "details": {}, "facilityName": null }, "cause": { "category": "CORROSION FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "INTERNAL CORROSION", "NARRATIVE": "OVERFLIGHT OF THE AREA BY BSEE INSPECTOR IDENTIFIED A LEAK IN THE VICINITY OF KINETICA'S 523M-2900 PIPELINE. IT WAS TOO LATE TO FLY TO THE LOCATION, SO KINETICA PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED THE NEXT AM TO ISOLATE THE PIPELINE. AT 11:00 AM, PRODUCTION WAS SHUT-IN AND PLATFORM VALVE CLOSED TO ISOLATE THE PIPELINE. DIVE VESSEL WAS PROCURED AND ARRIVED ON SITE ON 11/12 TO CLOSE SUB-SEA VALVE. WEATHER (ROUGH SEAS) PROHIBITED THE REPAIR UNTIL 11/30. UPON HAVING CALMER WEATHER, DIVE VESSEL WAS DISPATCHED TO LOCATION. DIVER EXCAVATED LEAK AREA AND PREPARED PIPELINE FOR INSTALLATION OF REPAIR CLAMP. DIVER IDENTIFIED A SMALL PINHOLE LEAK AT THE 6:00 POSITION. REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED. DIVER OPENED SUB-SEA VALVE. KINETICA PERSONNEL OPENED PLATFORM VALVE TO ALLOW PRODUCTION TO COMMENCE. 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