# KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-03-26 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150055 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2015-03-26 **Published:** 2015-04-20 Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, CAMERON County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 180 NATURAL GAS released, $225,000 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 in Not Within a Municipality, CAMERON County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 180 NATURAL GAS released, $225,000 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: 20150055. Operator ID: 38987. Reported incident date: 3/26/2015 14:05. Location detail: VALVE STATION Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION Cause detail: DURING A LOCATION VISIT WITH THE LAND OWNER, OUR RIGHT OF WAY DIRECTOR SAW UNUSUAL INFREQUENT DISTURBANCE ON THE TOP OF THE WATER IN THE PIPELINE CANAL FOR THE 507F-100 PIPELINE. THE DISTURBANCE OF THE WATER SURFACE WAS NOT CONSISTENT WITH A PIPELINE LEAK AND APPEARED TO BE RELATED TO SWAMP GAS. OUR OPERATIONS DIRECTOR MADE A DECISION TO DISPATCH A SHALLOW WATER DIVE PACKAGE TO THE LOCATION TO INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL FOR A MAINTENANCE LEAK. UPON EXCAVATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS VERY SMALL, INTERMITTENT BUBBLES BEING RELEASED. THE PIPE WAS CLEANED AND PREPPED AND A REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED. UPDATED: DISTANCE BETWEEN VALVES. EXPLANATION FOR SUSPECTED MIC PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL. PHMSA indexed costs: $228,900 reported total cost, $115,214.543 in 1984 dollars, $282,707.475 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: `7939a38df6eac317c1cc3812ff4d0220fe78d32c70a76a4963a8505792721ba4` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-23T20:55:41.705Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-f1428ccffc0b2fa58b1811ea` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20150055", "supplementalNumber": "16947", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2015-04-20", "receivedDateRaw": "4/20/2015" }, "operator": { "id": "38987", "name": "KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2015-03-26", "dateRaw": "3/26/2015 14:05" }, "location": { "city": "Not Within a Municipality", "county": "CAMERON", "state": "LA", "postalCode": "70643", "latitude": 29.730553, "longitude": -92.965894, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "VALVE STATION" }, "facilityName": "507F-100" }, "cause": { "category": "CORROSION FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "INTERNAL CORROSION", "NARRATIVE": "DURING A LOCATION VISIT WITH THE LAND OWNER, OUR RIGHT OF WAY DIRECTOR SAW UNUSUAL INFREQUENT DISTURBANCE ON THE TOP OF THE WATER IN THE PIPELINE CANAL FOR THE 507F-100 PIPELINE. THE DISTURBANCE OF THE WATER SURFACE WAS NOT CONSISTENT WITH A PIPELINE LEAK AND APPEARED TO BE RELATED TO SWAMP GAS. OUR OPERATIONS DIRECTOR MADE A DECISION TO DISPATCH A SHALLOW WATER DIVE PACKAGE TO THE LOCATION TO INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL FOR A MAINTENANCE LEAK. UPON EXCAVATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS VERY SMALL, INTERMITTENT BUBBLES BEING RELEASED. THE PIPE WAS CLEANED AND PREPPED AND A REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED. UPDATED: DISTANCE BETWEEN VALVES. 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