# CHESAPEAKE OPERATING INC. — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-12-11

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20130006  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2012-12-11  
**Published:** 2013-01-18

Gas transmission and gathering incident in BOSSIER County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 250 NATURAL GAS released, $245,000 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 in BOSSIER County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 250 NATURAL GAS released, $245,000 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: 20130006.

Operator ID: 32646.

Reported incident date: 12/11/2012 8:30.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: CORROSION-RELATED LEAK ON A LOW FLOW, LOW PRESSURE CLASS 2 GATHERING LINE. THE LEAK WAS IN AN INTERMITTENT CREEK CROSSING. THE PIPELINE WAS ORIGINALLY HDD'D AND WAS 10 PLUS FEET DEEP AT THE LEAK SITE. THE DECISION WAS MADE TO ABANDON IN PLACE AND REPLACE WITH A NEW PIPE CROSSING OF TRENCHED CONSTSRUCTION TO MINIMIZE THE WATER TRAP ASSOCIATED WITH THE CROSSING.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $283,000 reported total cost, $149,981.285 in 1984 dollars, $366,264.11 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: `eebba9d98cd6e32133c2e39fb0c94ca3110e18dc0f7bd25670f54141ad7d4a09`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T01:06:47.921Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-cce489f3c2a9a6fadd95f988`

### Source metadata

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