# TARGA RESOURCES OPERATING LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-04-18

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20120052  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2012-04-18  
**Published:** 2012-05-17

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1100 NATURAL GAS released, $168,000 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, 1100 NATURAL GAS released, $168,000 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: 20120052.

Operator ID: 32296.

Reported incident date: 4/18/2012 13:00.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: TARGA RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF GAS BUBBLES IN WATER SIGHTED NEAR LOCATION OF COMPANY PIPELINE. TARGA RESPONDED BY HELICOPTER AND IDENTIFIED LEAK AS ORIGINATING FROM COMPANY PIPELINE. TARGA DISPATCHED REPAIR DIVE BOAT TO SITE. PIPELINE WAS REPAIRED BY INSTALLATION OF A BELTED REPAIR CLAMP.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $177,000 reported total cost, $94,305.283 in 1984 dollars, $228,635.645 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: `039b477d60b64db8b0f0d544cc509139e38352ac7b9de4cf525f712f60527d0d`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T14:37:58.587Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-ec6304e4eec2cff028a88e54`

### Source metadata

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