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PHMSA Report 20030026
EL PASO NATURAL GAS CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2003-02-20
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in DEMING, LUNA County, NM. Reported cause: 19. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $123,230 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: 20030026.
Operator ID: 4280.
Reported incident date: 2/20/2003.
Cause detail: PIPE SEAM WELD
Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 1:00 P.M. MST. A NON-HAZARDOUS LEAK ON LINE 1103 WAS FOUND IN LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, FIVE MILES EAST OF DEMING, DURING A SCHEDULED LEAK SURVEY. FOLLOWING A METALLURGICAL INVESTIGATION, A CLUSTER OF POROSITY WAS FOUND IN THE LONG SEAM. THE LEAK RESULTED FROM THE INTERSECTION OF A WORM-HOLE PORE WITH THE FINISH PASS CRACK.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — PIPE SEAM.
PHMSA indexed costs: $123,230 reported total cost, $82,819.161 in 1984 dollars, $109,740.553 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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