# TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION LP (SPECTRA ENERGY CORP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-09-21

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150122  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2015-09-21  
**Published:** 2015-10-13

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 65 NATURAL GAS released, $325,000 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, 65 NATURAL GAS released, $325,000 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: 20150122.

Operator ID: 19235.

Reported incident date: 9/21/2015 18:15.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: INDICATIONS OF BUBBLES ON THE WATER SURFACE IN EAST CAMERON 246 WERE REPORTED BY A COAST GUARD HELICOPTER ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2015. UPON INVESTIGATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THE LEAK WAS CAUSED BY A PINHOLE LEAK RESULTING FROM INTERNAL CORROSION ON TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, L.P. 20-INCH LINE 41-A-2 NATURAL GAS PIPELINE. REPAIR BY INSTALLATION OF A CLAMP WAS COMPLETED SEPTEMBER 25, 2015.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $372,167 reported total cost, $206,776.378 in 1984 dollars, $455,221.092 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: `cc2b70692d782bc4c3acae65956db50c020571c67be940330ae2134f2f0c535c`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T14:41:16.191Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-e187ef45f6b00035cfd4f40f`

### Source metadata

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