# KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-12-26 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20170008 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2016-12-26 **Published:** 2017-01-25 Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 8986 NATURAL GAS released, $400,000 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: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 8986 NATURAL GAS released, $400,000 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: 20170008. Operator ID: 38987. Reported incident date: 12/26/2016 14:30. Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE Cause detail: ON 12/26/2016, ENBRIDGE REPRESENTATIVE REPORTED A LEAK IN THE SMI 75 AREA AT 2:30 PM. COORDINATES WERE PLOTTED AND DETERMINED TO BE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO TWO KINETICA PIPELINES AND OTHER 3RD PARTY PIPELINES. ON THE AFTERNOON OF 12/27/2016 (DUE TO FOG IN THE AM), KINETICA DISPATCHED A HELICOPTER TO VERIFY COORDINATES AND SHUT OFF SOURCE OF PRODUCTION. DSV WAS MOBILIZED TO INVESTIGATE LEAK AND DETERMINED IT TO BE A LEAKING 30" FLANGE. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO TORQUE THE FLANGE BOLTS TO STOP THE LEAK, BUT THAT ATTEMPT DID NOT WORK. ORDERED NEW BOLTS AND O-RING, AND PLANS ARE TO MOBE DSV TO LOCATION WHEN WORKING PRESSURE ON PIPELINE REACHES BOTTOM PRESSURE (APPROXIMATELY 75#). KINETICA PERSONNEL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH PRODUCER TO REDUCE PRESSURE ON LINE BY VENTING AND USING PRODUCER'S EQUIPMENT ON PLATFORM. SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT WILL BE SUBMITTED WHEN ALL REPAIRS ARE COMPLETED. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE. PHMSA indexed costs: $431,396 reported total cost, $229,608.848 in 1984 dollars, $530,752.413 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: `a009053a2fcf344215ce5b0ef820fb37094de6119c2226a58e5c0955c8a9cbf6` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-23T10:21:35.850Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-e8bb2805c4633a13b9289a42` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20170008", "supplementalNumber": "17472", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2017-01-25", "receivedDateRaw": "1/25/2017" }, "operator": { "id": "38987", "name": "KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2016-12-26", "dateRaw": "12/26/2016 14:30" }, "location": { "city": null, "county": null, "state": null, "postalCode": null, "latitude": 28.575664, "longitude": -91.969964, "type": "OFFSHORE", "details": {}, "facilityName": null }, "cause": { "category": "EQUIPMENT FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE", "NARRATIVE": "ON 12/26/2016, ENBRIDGE REPRESENTATIVE REPORTED A LEAK IN THE SMI 75 AREA AT 2:30 PM. COORDINATES WERE PLOTTED AND DETERMINED TO BE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO TWO KINETICA PIPELINES AND OTHER 3RD PARTY PIPELINES. ON THE AFTERNOON OF 12/27/2016 (DUE TO FOG IN THE AM), KINETICA DISPATCHED A HELICOPTER TO VERIFY COORDINATES AND SHUT OFF SOURCE OF PRODUCTION. DSV WAS MOBILIZED TO INVESTIGATE LEAK AND DETERMINED IT TO BE A LEAKING 30\" FLANGE. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO TORQUE THE FLANGE BOLTS TO STOP THE LEAK, BUT THAT ATTEMPT DID NOT WORK. ORDERED NEW BOLTS AND O-RING, AND PLANS ARE TO MOBE DSV TO LOCATION WHEN WORKING PRESSURE ON PIPELINE REACHES BOTTOM PRESSURE (APPROXIMATELY 75#). KINETICA PERSONNEL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH PRODUCER TO REDUCE PRESSURE ON LINE BY VENTING AND USING PRODUCER'S EQUIPMENT ON PLATFORM. 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