{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20150004","title":"SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-12-16","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2015-01-14","effective_on":"2014-12-16","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in WAKITA, GRANT County, OK. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 12500 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. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-07cafea529394bb1947c6ea7.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-07cafea529394bb1947c6ea7.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-07cafea529394bb1947c6ea7","source_url":"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","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in WAKITA, GRANT County, OK. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 12500 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.\n\nReport number: 20150004.\n\nOperator ID: 31711.\n\nReported incident date: 12/16/2014 10:00.\n\nLocation detail: 150/10321+78\n\nCause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT\n\nCause detail: AT 10:00 ON 12/16/2014 SSC GAS CONTROL RECEIVED A CALL FROM SSC FIELD OPERATIONS STATING THERE MAY BE AN ISSUE AT THE WAKITA STATION, POSSIBLE ESD. THE FIELD OPERATOR WAS NEAR BY AND GOING TO INVESTIGATE. AT 10:00 SSC GAS CONTROL LOST COMMUNICATIONS WITH WAKITA STATION AND BEGAN CONTACTING THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT TO CORRECT THE ISSUE. AT 10:06 SSC GAS CONTROL BEGAN RECEIVING LOW ALARMS FOR THE BLACKWELL/GUYMON, LINE N. AT 10:08 THE LOCAL PSAP AND THE LOCAL OPERATOR WAS NOTIFIED OF THE ALARMS/ISSUE. AT 10:43 OPERATIONS WAS ON SITE AND WORKING ON A MAINLINE VALVE THAT WAS STUCK OPEN LEAVING THE ESD VALVE TO CONTINUE BLOWING MAINLINE GAS PRESSURE. AT 10:56 THE MAINLINE VALVE WAS CLOSED AND THE GAS HAD STOPPED BLOWING.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $45,463 reported total cost, $31,283.971 in 1984 dollars, $38,975.888 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1740}