# GULFSTREAM MANAGEMENT & OPERATING SERVICES,LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-05-26 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20180058 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2018-05-26 **Published:** 2018-06-06 Gas transmission and gathering incident in FORT MEADE, POLK County, FL. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 9229 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: not significant, not serious. ## Document text Gas transmission and gathering incident in FORT MEADE, POLK County, FL. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 9229 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: 20180058. Operator ID: 31565. Reported incident date: 5/26/2018 21:35. Location detail: STATION 6+65 Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT Cause detail: 5/26/18 21:19 - TIGER BAY FLOW WENT TO 0 21:31 - TIGER BAY HIGH DISCHARGE PRESSURE ALARM WHICH APPEARED TO BE DUE TO METER SHUTTING IN AS IT DOES EACH NIGHT. 21:35 - THE RELIEF LIFTED DUE TO SLOW LOCKUP ON THE REGULATORS. TIGER BAY ALARM CLEARED AND NO ADDITIONAL ALARMS WERE RECEIVED, EVERYTHING APPEARED NORMAL. SCADA BEGAN TO SEE A FLOW RATE OF 43000M RATE WHICH APPEARED TO CONTINUE NOM OF 38,999M. THE FAILURE OF THE RELIEF TO RESEAT CAUSED THE REGULATOR/CONTROL VALVES TO OPEN IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THE PRESSURE. 5/27/18 01:34 - MACCUNNINHAM WITH DUKE ENERGY TIGER BAY CONTROL ROOM CALLED WILLIAMS CONTROL CENTER NOTIFYING OF RELIEF VALVE RELEASING GAS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE 01:39 - WILLIAMS TECH WAS NOTIFIED OF THE INCIDENT AND WAS ON ROUTE TO METER STATION TO INVESTIGATE AND GATHER ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 02:27 - WILLIAMS TECH ARRIVED AT THE LOCATION AND CONFIRMED GAS VENTING TO ATMOSPHERE THROUGH RELIEF VALVE AND CLOSED DESIGNATED VALVES TO SHUT IN FLOW 02:52 - WILLIAMS TECH CONFIRMED SOC WAS GIVEN ALL RELATED INFORMATION AND WILL MAKE EXTERNAL NOTIFICATIONS AS NECESSARY. 05/29/18 REPAIRED FAILED REGULATOR BOOT AND RESEATED RELIEF VALVE PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT. PHMSA indexed costs: $26,200 reported total cost, $24,374.498 in 1984 dollars, $30,046.155 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: `9acc5353e68e97c658d02e710d9f1203eee27aca63d00ac173fc2a2b1ccf92e3` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-26T06:25:57.751Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-de864e3c131abcea0b1707fe` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20180058", "supplementalNumber": "30537", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2018-06-06", "receivedDateRaw": "6/6/2018" }, "operator": { "id": "31565", "name": "GULFSTREAM MANAGEMENT & OPERATING SERVICES,LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2018-05-26", "dateRaw": "5/26/2018 21:35" }, "location": { "city": "FORT MEADE", "county": "POLK", "state": "FL", "postalCode": "33841", "latitude": 27.74917668, "longitude": -81.85019205, "type": "OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "STATION 6+65" }, "facilityName": "STATION 415" }, "cause": { "category": "EQUIPMENT FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT", "NARRATIVE": "5/26/18 21:19 - TIGER BAY FLOW WENT TO 0 21:31 - TIGER BAY HIGH DISCHARGE PRESSURE ALARM WHICH APPEARED TO BE DUE TO METER SHUTTING IN AS IT DOES EACH NIGHT. 21:35 - THE RELIEF LIFTED DUE TO SLOW LOCKUP ON THE REGULATORS. TIGER BAY ALARM CLEARED AND NO ADDITIONAL ALARMS WERE RECEIVED, EVERYTHING APPEARED NORMAL. SCADA BEGAN TO SEE A FLOW RATE OF 43000M RATE WHICH APPEARED TO CONTINUE NOM OF 38,999M. THE FAILURE OF THE RELIEF TO RESEAT CAUSED THE REGULATOR/CONTROL VALVES TO OPEN IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THE PRESSURE. 5/27/18 01:34 - MACCUNNINHAM WITH DUKE ENERGY TIGER BAY CONTROL ROOM CALLED WILLIAMS CONTROL CENTER NOTIFYING OF RELIEF VALVE RELEASING GAS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE 01:39 - WILLIAMS TECH WAS NOTIFIED OF THE INCIDENT AND WAS ON ROUTE TO METER STATION TO INVESTIGATE AND GATHER ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 02:27 - WILLIAMS TECH ARRIVED AT THE LOCATION AND CONFIRMED GAS VENTING TO ATMOSPHERE THROUGH RELIEF VALVE AND CLOSED DESIGNATED VALVES TO SHUT IN FLOW 02:52 - WILLIAMS TECH CONFIRMED SOC WAS GIVEN ALL RELATED INFORMATION AND WILL MAKE EXTERNAL NOTIFICATIONS AS NECESSARY. 05/29/18 REPAIRED FAILED REGULATOR BOOT AND RESEATED RELIEF VALVE" } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "9229", "propertyDamage": 0, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 0, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "NO", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": 0, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "9229", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "0", "PRPTY": "26200" } }, "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": 970, "rowSha256": "36cfca626293194fe392b708fc5a9d8f782da58651662a7d9faa855d3b679d88" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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