KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-04-29

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 34 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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: 20140050.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 4/29/2014 16:45.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - THIS IS THE ONLY WAY I AM ABLE TO TAKE THE REPORT TO "FINAL" STATUS PLATFORM OPERATOR FOR ENERGY PARTNERS CONTACTED THE KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS PIPELINE DIRECTOR AT 16:45 ON 4.29.14 STATING THAT A BUBBLE HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED ON THE WATER'S SURFACE ABOUT 1/2 MILE FROM THEIR PLATFORM. THEY HAD SHUT IN THEIR PIPELINE, NO REDUCTION IN THE SIZE OF THE BUBBLE WAS APPARENT. THEY WERE ASKED TO CLOSE THE SUPPLY VALVE TO THE 523M-7500 KINETICA PIPELINE LINE AT THAT TIME. FOGGY CONDITIONS WERE REPORTED AT THE LOCATION SO PERSONNEL COULD NOT BE DISPATCHED TO THE LOCATION AT THAT TIME FROM THE BEACH. ON THE MORNING OF 4.30.14 KINETICA PERSONNEL FLEW TO THE LOCATION TO VERIFY THE COORDINATES. AFTER VERIFICATION THIS WAS A KINETICA PIPELINE, PERSONNEL LOCKED AND TAGGED ALL VALVES AT THE PLATFORM LOCATION AND MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO RELIEVE PRESSURE FROM THE PIPELINE TO 70 PSIG. A DIVE VESSEL WAS DISPATCHED TO THE LOCATION TO CLOSE SUBSEA VALVES AND PREPARE TO MAKE THE PIPELINE REPAIR. AFTER EXCAVATING THE LOCATION AND REMOVING THE CONCRETE COATING, THE DIVER WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY A SMALL PINHOLE LEAK. THE GENERAL AREA HAD A UT INSPECTION PERFORMED, NO INDICATIONS OF GENERALIZED CORROSION WERE IDENTIFIED. THE REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED, THE OPERATOR WAS ASKED TO RAISE THE PRESSURE A SMALL TO LOOK FOR ANY INDICATION OF A RELEASE OF PRESSURE. AFTER THE INITIAL PRESSURIZATION, THE PIPELINE TO SERVICE IN INCREMENTAL STEPS WHILE BEING MONITORED FOR LEAKS. AFTER THE DETERMINATION WAS MADE THE REPAIR WAS SUCCESSFUL, THE VESSEL DEPARTED THE LOCATION.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $220,061 reported total cost, $112,300.975 in 1984 dollars, $273,606.26 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.