# GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-04-25

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20140055  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2014-04-25  
**Published:** 2014-05-20

Gas transmission and gathering incident in PASCAGOULA, JACKSON County, MS. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 15 NATURAL GAS released, $78,688 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: not significant, not serious.

## Document text

Gas transmission and gathering incident in PASCAGOULA, JACKSON County, MS. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 15 NATURAL GAS released, $78,688 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: 20140055.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 4/25/2014 9:30.

Location detail: 15.85

Cause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED

Cause detail: DURING LINE PATROL, TECHNICIAN DISCOVERED LEAK. IT WAS REPORTED TO MANAGEMENT, THE PRESSURE WAS LOWERED BY 20% AND PERSONNEL TOOK APPROPRIATE ACTIONS TO ISOLATE THE AREA. PLANS WERE MADE AND EXECUTED TO TO REPAIR LEAK AND LINE WAS RETURNED TO NORMAL OPERATION.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED.

PHMSA indexed costs: $80,313 reported total cost, $40,841.312 in 1984 dollars, $100,166.991 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: `66522ee3c59c8271da1447b0d3d707292d79683741e9367743f356687223d6fb`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T02:57:46.488Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-f41e31411c5f584d89cc68f1`

### Source metadata

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