# TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE CO (EL PASO) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-02-08

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20120020
- **title:** TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE CO (EL PASO) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-02-08
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2012-02-24
- **effective on:** 2012-02-08
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 368 NATURAL GAS released, $256,104 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.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 368 NATURAL GAS released, $256,104 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: 20120020.

Operator ID: 19160.

Reported incident date: 2/8/2012 15:17.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: LOCAL PRODUCTION PLATFORM PERSONNEL OBSERVED BUBBLES IN THE VICINITY OF TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE'S (TGP'S) 524J-100 PIPELINE AND SENT A TEXT MESSAGE TO A TGP TECHNICIAN. THIS TECHNICIAN REPORTED TO HIS MANAGER AND A TGP HELICOPTER WAS DISPATCHED TO CONFIRM THE BUBBLES AND THE PIPELINE COORDINATES. TGP COMMISSIONED A DIVER TO THE SITE WHO CONFIRMED A PINHOLE LEAK AND INSTALLED A CLAMP. THE PIPELINE REMAINS OUT OF SERVICE PENDING TGP'S OPERATIONAL DECISION TO RE-ROUTE GAS FLOW AND ABANDON THIS PIPELINE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $298,330 reported total cost, $167,993.938 in 1984 dollars, $377,391.881 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.
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