# ENBRIDGE PIPELINES (EAST TEXAS) L.P. — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-01-26 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20140023 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2014-01-26 **Published:** 2014-02-25 Gas transmission and gathering incident in GOODRICH, POLK County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 78042 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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 GOODRICH, POLK County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 78042 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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: 20140023. Operator ID: 31613. Reported incident date: 1/26/2014 8:45. Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT Cause detail: AT 8:45 THE CONTROL CENTER NOTIFIED OPERATIONS THAT A PRESSURE DROP WAS INDICATED ON THE DD AND CLARITY SYSTEM. OPERATIONS WAS DISPACHED AND ARRIVED AT THE GOODRICH COMPRESSOR STATION AT 09:15. OPERATIONS FOUND THE COMPRESSOR STATION HAD EXPERIENCED A POWER FAILURE CAUSING AN ESD OF THE STATION. A 20" SUCTION VALVE FAILED TO CLOSE DURING THE ESD ALLOWING ADDITIONAL GAS TO BE BLOWN DOWN. THE VALVE WAS MANUALLY SHUT AT 09:35 AND PRESSURE BEGAN TO INCREASE TO NORMAL OPERATING PRESSURE. REPORTED DUE TO UNINTENIONAL GAS LOSS EXCEEDING THE 3 MMCF LIMIT AND THE COST OF GAS LOSS EXCEEDING $50,000. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT. PHMSA indexed costs: $390,210 reported total cost, $269,935.114 in 1984 dollars, $331,439.317 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: `bd40681cc766d57515b687b0b97ba8663fdcd4c3a03a3601900bb2376034c936` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T14:49:56.366Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-b931830cf324903ce3cc3679` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20140023", "supplementalNumber": "16525", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2014-02-25", "receivedDateRaw": "2/25/2014" }, "operator": { "id": "31613", "name": "ENBRIDGE PIPELINES (EAST TEXAS) L.P." }, "incident": { "date": "2014-01-26", "dateRaw": "1/26/2014 8:45" }, "location": { "city": "GOODRICH", "county": "POLK", "state": "TX", "postalCode": "77335", "latitude": 30.60722, "longitude": -94.93974, "type": "OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": {}, "facilityName": "GOODRICH COMPRESSOR STATION" }, "cause": { "category": "EQUIPMENT FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT", "NARRATIVE": "AT 8:45 THE CONTROL CENTER NOTIFIED OPERATIONS THAT A PRESSURE DROP WAS INDICATED ON THE DD AND CLARITY SYSTEM. OPERATIONS WAS DISPACHED AND ARRIVED AT THE GOODRICH COMPRESSOR STATION AT 09:15. OPERATIONS FOUND THE COMPRESSOR STATION HAD EXPERIENCED A POWER FAILURE CAUSING AN ESD OF THE STATION. A 20\" SUCTION VALVE FAILED TO CLOSE DURING THE ESD ALLOWING ADDITIONAL GAS TO BE BLOWN DOWN. THE VALVE WAS MANUALLY SHUT AT 09:35 AND PRESSURE BEGAN TO INCREASE TO NORMAL OPERATING PRESSURE. REPORTED DUE TO UNINTENIONAL GAS LOSS EXCEEDING THE 3 MMCF LIMIT AND THE COST OF GAS LOSS EXCEEDING $50,000." } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "78042", "propertyDamage": 0, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 0, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "NO", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": null, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "78042", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "0", "PRPTY": "390210" } }, "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": 1515, "rowSha256": "ca9d18370d52306d4e8c5d393e8a7ddda6eaeaef56a7a4684523ec98899049ba" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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