# SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-12-26 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20140010 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2013-12-26 **Published:** 2014-01-20 Gas transmission and gathering incident in PERRY, NOBLE County, OK. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 20073 NATURAL GAS released, $15,772 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 in PERRY, NOBLE County, OK. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 20073 NATURAL GAS released, $15,772 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: 20140010. Operator ID: 31711. Reported incident date: 12/26/2013 21:00. Location detail: 220/-2286+68 Cause detail: THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE Cause detail: SSCGP RECEIVED A CALL AT 5:50 PM ON 12/26/2013 FROM LOCAL RESIDENT ABOUT GAS BLOWING FROM A PIPE NEAR PERRY, OK IN NOBLE COUNTY. GAS CONTROL CONTACTED OPERATIONS AND NARROWED THE ADDRESS TO THE PERRY STATION. OPERATIONS ARRIVED ON SCENE AT 6:42 PM ON 12/26/2013, CONFIRMING THE LEAK BUT WAS UNABLE TO CONFIRM WHETHER IT WAS A SSCGP LINE OR MUSTANG GAS FACILITY; CONTACT WAS MADE WITH MUSTANG AND SSCGP WAITED FOR THEIR OPERATIONS FOR HELP WITH CONFIRMATION. AT 8:45 PM ON 12/26/2013 CUSTOMERS WERE NOTIFIED AND SSCGP BEGAN TO LOWER GAS FLOW FOR A SHUT IN. AT 9:00 PM THE LEAK WAS VERIFIED TO BE A SSCGP FACILITY AND AT 9:17 PM ON 12/26/13 THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED. THE SEGMENT WAS COMPLETELY SHUT IN AT 10:00 PM ON 12/26/2013. ALL WORK TO INSTALL A HOUSING OVER THE LEAKING COUPLING WAS COMPLETED AND LINE RETURNED TO NORMAL SERVICE AT 8:14 PM ON 12/27/2013. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE. PHMSA indexed costs: $105,334 reported total cost, $80,651.656 in 1984 dollars, $109,101.624 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: `2ffceaf319a91f3c35916afb8e8c466f3a4340c165a3f8695156726955a38bd2` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T14:35:30.290Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-911eab196da93d64442a0771` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20140010", "supplementalNumber": "16388", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL", "receivedDate": "2014-01-20", "receivedDateRaw": "1/20/2014" }, "operator": { "id": "31711", "name": "SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC" }, "incident": { "date": "2013-12-26", "dateRaw": "12/26/2013 21:00" }, "location": { "city": "PERRY", "county": "NOBLE", "state": "OK", "postalCode": "73077", "latitude": 36.36020787, "longitude": -97.39001318, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "220/-2286+68" }, "facilityName": "LINE V" }, "cause": { "category": "EQUIPMENT FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE", "NARRATIVE": "SSCGP RECEIVED A CALL AT 5:50 PM ON 12/26/2013 FROM LOCAL RESIDENT ABOUT GAS BLOWING FROM A PIPE NEAR PERRY, OK IN NOBLE COUNTY. GAS CONTROL CONTACTED OPERATIONS AND NARROWED THE ADDRESS TO THE PERRY STATION. OPERATIONS ARRIVED ON SCENE AT 6:42 PM ON 12/26/2013, CONFIRMING THE LEAK BUT WAS UNABLE TO CONFIRM WHETHER IT WAS A SSCGP LINE OR MUSTANG GAS FACILITY; CONTACT WAS MADE WITH MUSTANG AND SSCGP WAITED FOR THEIR OPERATIONS FOR HELP WITH CONFIRMATION. AT 8:45 PM ON 12/26/2013 CUSTOMERS WERE NOTIFIED AND SSCGP BEGAN TO LOWER GAS FLOW FOR A SHUT IN. AT 9:00 PM THE LEAK WAS VERIFIED TO BE A SSCGP FACILITY AND AT 9:17 PM ON 12/26/13 THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED. THE SEGMENT WAS COMPLETELY SHUT IN AT 10:00 PM ON 12/26/2013. ALL WORK TO INSTALL A HOUSING OVER THE LEAKING COUPLING WAS COMPLETED AND LINE RETURNED TO NORMAL SERVICE AT 8:14 PM ON 12/27/2013." } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "20073", "propertyDamage": 15772, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 0, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "NO", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": 0, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "20073", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "15772", "PRPTY": "105334" } }, "provenance": { "viewId": "27nc-rsge", "viewUrl": "https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge", "assetId": "2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8", "archiveFilename": "Gas Transmission & Gathering Incident Data - January 2010 to present.zip", "archiveSha256": "fe0b136ca4b00ac987a8bc2e195098accf910d97512c5fc3b59e62d9da5f674e", "memberPath": "incident_gas_transmission_gathering_jan2010_present.txt", "memberSha256": "b435f2a25718cf54c54e00294e6788c4f9c6860e02fb86355e75d294c243c4dd", "rowNumber": 1528, "rowSha256": "5ed5e2ba20bda826cecd634ae4c9ac3f75954a60aedb114ccb00fc863e66faed" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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