# KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-11-13 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20160093 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2016-11-13 **Published:** 2016-12-13 Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 541 NATURAL GAS released, $150,000 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, 541 NATURAL GAS released, $150,000 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: 20160093. Operator ID: 38987. Reported incident date: 11/13/2016 17:33. Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION Cause detail: BUBBLES 6' IN DIAMETER REPORTED TO USCG BY OUTSIDE PARTY ON 11/13. USCG NOTIFIED KINETICA OPERATIONS REGARDING LEAK AT 17:33 ON 11/13. OPERATIONS AND GAS CONTROL VIEWED SCADA BUT DID NOT SEE ANY LOSS OF LINE PRESSURE. OPERATIONS INFORMED USCG THAT MORNING OVERFLIGHT WOULD BE CONDUCTED. 11/14 OVERFLIGHT VERIFIED COORDINATES AND LOCATION OF LEAK IN PROXIMITY TO KINETICA'S PIPELINE. OPERATIONS SHUT-IN PRODUCTION AND CLOSED ONSHORE VALVE TO ISOLATE SEGMENT. DSV MOBILIZED AND ARRIVED ON LOCATION ON 11/15. CONFIRMED PINHOLE LEAK AT 6 O'CLOCK POSITION. PRESSURE NEEDED TO BE REDUCED IN ORDER TO INSTALL REPAIR CLAMP. WHILE REDUCING PRESSURE PRIOR TO INSTALLING CLAMP, WEATHER WORSENED AND WAS NOT CONDUCIVE FOR DIVING OPERATIONS UNTIL 12/13. DIVERS ON LOCATION ON 12/13 TO INSTALL REPAIR CLAMP. WILL SUBMIT SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT UPON COMPLETION OF CLAMP INSTALLATION. REPAIR CLAMP INSTALLED AT 2:00AM ON 11/15. PIPELINE PLACED BACK IN SERVICE. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL. PHMSA indexed costs: $181,785 reported total cost, $105,637.031 in 1984 dollars, $224,936.554 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: `1db18dc5858ad884f16535a16ab2b912eaee35fe8e7dbeaadd979c4a23773472` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-23T15:58:09.511Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-ebedfac382f8fe83cde310ed` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20160093", "supplementalNumber": "17352", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2016-12-13", "receivedDateRaw": "12/13/2016" }, "operator": { "id": "38987", "name": "KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2016-11-13", "dateRaw": "11/13/2016 17:33" }, "location": { "city": null, "county": null, "state": null, "postalCode": null, "latitude": 29.375008, "longitude": -92.131389, "type": "OFFSHORE", "details": {}, "facilityName": null }, "cause": { "category": "CORROSION FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "INTERNAL CORROSION", "NARRATIVE": "BUBBLES 6' IN DIAMETER REPORTED TO USCG BY OUTSIDE PARTY ON 11/13. USCG NOTIFIED KINETICA OPERATIONS REGARDING LEAK AT 17:33 ON 11/13. OPERATIONS AND GAS CONTROL VIEWED SCADA BUT DID NOT SEE ANY LOSS OF LINE PRESSURE. OPERATIONS INFORMED USCG THAT MORNING OVERFLIGHT WOULD BE CONDUCTED. 11/14 OVERFLIGHT VERIFIED COORDINATES AND LOCATION OF LEAK IN PROXIMITY TO KINETICA'S PIPELINE. OPERATIONS SHUT-IN PRODUCTION AND CLOSED ONSHORE VALVE TO ISOLATE SEGMENT. DSV MOBILIZED AND ARRIVED ON LOCATION ON 11/15. CONFIRMED PINHOLE LEAK AT 6 O'CLOCK POSITION. PRESSURE NEEDED TO BE REDUCED IN ORDER TO INSTALL REPAIR CLAMP. WHILE REDUCING PRESSURE PRIOR TO INSTALLING CLAMP, WEATHER WORSENED AND WAS NOT CONDUCIVE FOR DIVING OPERATIONS UNTIL 12/13. DIVERS ON LOCATION ON 12/13 TO INSTALL REPAIR CLAMP. WILL SUBMIT SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT UPON COMPLETION OF CLAMP INSTALLATION. REPAIR CLAMP INSTALLED AT 2:00AM ON 11/15. 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