# GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-03-03

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20130026  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2013-03-03  
**Published:** 2013-03-28

Gas transmission and gathering incident in RINGGOLD, BIENVILLE County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 23799 NATURAL GAS released, $180 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 RINGGOLD, BIENVILLE County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 23799 NATURAL GAS released, $180 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: 20130026.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 3/3/2013 0:37.

Location detail: 62.85

Cause detail: COMPRESSOR OR COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: FAILED ELECTRICAL WIRING CONNECTION ON VALVE ACCUATOR CONTROLS CAUSED A COIL TO DROP OUT AND CAUSED STATION VALVE TO OPEN WHICH IS THE FAIL SAFE POSITION. THE NRC REPORT INDICATES THAT THE INCIDENT OCCURRED ON A TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION ASSET; HOWEVER, IT ACTUALLY OCCURRED ON A GULF SOUTH ASSET. ORIGINAL SUBMISSION WAS THE FINAL SUBMISSION. UPDATED COORDINATES AS REQUESTED BY BASIN BACENTY WITH PHMSA. 2-28-14 CORRECTED GAS VOLUME RELEASED UNINTENTIONALLY FROM 23.79 MCF TO 23,799 MCF. 3-17-14

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — PUMP/COMPRESSOR OR PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $82,287 reported total cost, $66,552.662 in 1984 dollars, $81,831.526 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: `457bd733a7fdb79ef19fc33927b5441146ad493d037cff3cdf06336f52403fbf`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T17:26:35.308Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-d1cda58e9a5918af9b3cc954`

### Source metadata

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