# TARGA RESOURCES OPERATING LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-12-07

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150001  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2014-12-07  
**Published:** 2015-01-07

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 750 NATURAL GAS released, $190,000 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, 750 NATURAL GAS released, $190,000 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: 20150001.

Operator ID: 32296.

Reported incident date: 12/7/2014 10:00.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: TARGA RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF INDICATIONS OF A LEAK IN THE VICINITY OF ITS PIPELINE FROM A THIRD PARTY. TARGA DISPATCHED A HELICOPTER AND BEGAN SHUTDOWN OF THE PIPELINE TO REDUCE FLOW. REPAIR COMPLETED BY INSTALLATION OF A BOLTED SPLIT SLEEVE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $214,000 reported total cost, $111,168.386 in 1984 dollars, $261,814.347 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: `42d96d993f1cba5386e5674000fa2d16bbe394cd9f0e557c515ae2911d8eed7d`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T16:01:58.108Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-a3e6621e5180785ff5c15539`

### Source metadata

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