SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-10-29

Gas transmission and gathering incident in HESSTON, HARVEY County, KS. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 NATURAL GAS released, $384,285 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: 20130108.

Operator ID: 31711.

Reported incident date: 10/29/2013 12:15.

Location detail: 105/10972+27

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

Cause detail: AT 12:15 PM ON 10/29/2013 AN SSCGP OPERATOR WAS DOING FIELD CHECKS OF THE HESSTON COMPRESSOR STATION. AN ICE BALL AND AUDIO SOUNDS WERE FOUND INDICATING A LEAK AND GAS CONTROL WAS IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED. ONCE NOTIFIED, PIPELINE SAFETY ISSUED A 20% REDUCTION IN PRESSURE, GAS CONTROL BEGAN THE PROCESS OF BRINGING THE LINE DOWN TO THE 20% REDUCTION LEVEL. WHILE PRESSURE WAS DROPPING OPERATIONS BEGAN DIGGING THE LEAKING AREA AND DECIDED THE LINE NEEDED TO BE BLOWN DOWN. THE LINE SEGMENT WAS BLOWN DOWN AT 20:00 10/29/2013. BEGINNING ON 10/30/2013 THE SEGMENT WAS COMPLETELY UNCOVERED AND THE CORRECTIVE ACTION OF CUTTING AND CAPPING THE LEAKING SECTION WAS MADE. THE LINE WAS BROUGHT BACK UP TO NORMAL OPERATING PRESSURE AT 20:39 ON 11/1/2013.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

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

PHMSA indexed costs: $477,034 reported total cost, $271,735.195 in 1984 dollars, $583,692.625 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.