# ENLINK LIG, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-07-31 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20170073 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2017-07-31 **Published:** 2017-08-29 Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, NATCHITOCHES PARISH County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 333 NATURAL GAS released, $500,000 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, NATCHITOCHES PARISH County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 333 NATURAL GAS released, $500,000 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: 20170073. Operator ID: 32005. Reported incident date: 7/31/2017 23:22. Location detail: MP53.7 (APP) Cause detail: COMPRESSOR OR COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT Cause detail: PIPELINE CONTROL NOTIFIED ENLINK OPERATOR THAT BOTH UNITS AT RED RIVER COMPRESSOR STATION WERE OFFLINE ON MONDAY 7/31/2017 AT 11:22 PM. AT 11:38 PM PIPELINE CONTROL RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM THE NATCHITOCHES SHERIFF AND FIRE DEPARTMENT OF A FIRE AT THE RED RIVER COMPRESSOR STATION. PIPELINE CONTROL NOTIFIED ENLINK OPERATOR OF FIRE AND ESD'D THE STATION AT 11:43 PM. ENLINK OPERATOR ARRIVED AT RED RIVER COMPRESSOR STATION AT 12:00 MIDNIGHT AND LED FIRE DEPARTMENT INTO STATION TO PUT OUT REMAINING OIL FIRE. OPERATOR CLOSED DAY TANK OIL VALVE TO STOP FLOW OF OIL TO COMPRESSOR AND THE FIRE. THE FIRE WAS OUT AT 12:41 AM 8/1/2017. 48-HOUR FOLLOW-UP NOTIFICATION WAS MADE ON 8/2/2017 @ 09:52. NRC INCIDENT # 1186003 PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — PUMP/COMPRESSOR OR PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT. PHMSA indexed costs: $505,109 reported total cost, $247,508.777 in 1984 dollars, $608,003.129 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: `662d64c696ee8790ffb643af190bbf12c2fe6b8ad9cc3c2c57b05cb29c2dcd6a` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T21:07:33.770Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-ff32dd4a4e683b77b0502bc0` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20170073", "supplementalNumber": "30522", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2017-08-29", "receivedDateRaw": "8/29/2017" }, "operator": { "id": "32005", "name": "ENLINK LIG, LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2017-07-31", "dateRaw": "7/31/2017 23:22" }, "location": { "city": "Not Within a Municipality", "county": "NATCHITOCHES PARISH", "state": "LA", "postalCode": "71411", "latitude": 31.84917, "longitude": -93.07667, "type": "OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "MP53.7 (APP)" }, "facilityName": "P1656/RED RIVER 24\"" }, "cause": { "category": "EQUIPMENT FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "COMPRESSOR OR COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT", "NARRATIVE": "PIPELINE CONTROL NOTIFIED ENLINK OPERATOR THAT BOTH UNITS AT RED RIVER COMPRESSOR STATION WERE OFFLINE ON MONDAY 7/31/2017 AT 11:22 PM. AT 11:38 PM PIPELINE CONTROL RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM THE NATCHITOCHES SHERIFF AND FIRE DEPARTMENT OF A FIRE AT THE RED RIVER COMPRESSOR STATION. PIPELINE CONTROL NOTIFIED ENLINK OPERATOR OF FIRE AND ESD'D THE STATION AT 11:43 PM. ENLINK OPERATOR ARRIVED AT RED RIVER COMPRESSOR STATION AT 12:00 MIDNIGHT AND LED FIRE DEPARTMENT INTO STATION TO PUT OUT REMAINING OIL FIRE. OPERATOR CLOSED DAY TANK OIL VALVE TO STOP FLOW OF OIL TO COMPRESSOR AND THE FIRE. THE FIRE WAS OUT AT 12:41 AM 8/1/2017. 48-HOUR FOLLOW-UP NOTIFICATION WAS MADE ON 8/2/2017 @ 09:52. NRC INCIDENT # 1186003" } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "333", "propertyDamage": 500000, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 2000, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "YES", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": 0, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "333", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "500000", "PRPTY": "505109" } }, "provenance": { "viewId": "27nc-rsge", "viewUrl": "https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge", "assetId": "2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8", "archiveFilename": "Gas Transmission & Gathering Incident Data - January 2010 to present.zip", "archiveSha256": "fe0b136ca4b00ac987a8bc2e195098accf910d97512c5fc3b59e62d9da5f674e", "memberPath": "incident_gas_transmission_gathering_jan2010_present.txt", "memberSha256": "b435f2a25718cf54c54e00294e6788c4f9c6860e02fb86355e75d294c243c4dd", "rowNumber": 1076, "rowSha256": "091eddff78378e53749cc9ba00e10003bf23705d08ed714aa1d6f32e66399018" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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