KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-10-23

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 411 NATURAL GAS released, $341,700 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: 20170110.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 10/23/2017 13:45.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON 10/23/2017 DURING ROUTINE OPERATIONS, KINETICA PERSONNEL IDENTIFIED BUBBLES IN SMI 42. LOCATION REPORTED TO KINETICA FIELD OFFICE AND COORDINATES PLOTTED. THE COORDINATES LOCATED NEAR LINE 523M-1300 INDICATING THIS LINE AS THE MOST LIKELY SOURCE OF THE RELEASE. UPON VERIFICATION KINETICA PERSONNEL INITIATED SHUT-IN OF THE PIPELINE AND PRODUCTION ISOLATED AT 14:15 ON 10/23/2017. DIVE VESSEL ISOLATED ENTIRE PIPELINE AT 21:00 ON 11/02/2017. STARTED BLOW DOWN AT 02:42 ON 11/03/17. REPAIRS COMPLETED AT 04:30 ON 11/07/2017 BY INSTALLATION OF A REPAIR CLAMP. VALVE OPENED AND PIPELINE BACK IN SERVICE AS OF 13:20 ON 11/07/2017.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $375,028 reported total cost, $194,067.22 in 1984 dollars, $450,575.563 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.