ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-06-28

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Gas transmission and gathering incident in BOLING, WHARTON County, TX. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.5 NATURAL GAS released, $150,000 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: 20120075.

Operator ID: 31618.

Reported incident date: 6/28/2012 8:25.

Location detail: 45.04

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

Cause detail: LANDOWNER IN WHARTON COUNTY DICOVERED LEAK ON PIPELINE RIGHT OF WAY,LANDOWNER NOTIFIED CONTRACT PERSONNEL WORKING ON ROW,CONTRACTOR CONTACTED ENTERPRISE PERSONEL AT 8:25 AM. ENTERPRISE PERSONNEL ARRIVED ON SITE AND DISCOVERED A SMALL LEAK AND VERIFIED THE LEAK TO BE ON OUR 24" PIPELINE AT APPROXIMATELY 9:55 AM. GAS CONTROL WAS NOTIFIED AND THE PIPELINE WAS SHUT-IN AND BLOWN DOWN AT 10:45 AM. NRC AND RAILROAD COMMISSION WERE NOTIFIED. AFTER EXCAVATION, THE PIPELINE WAS FOUND TO HAVE A CRACK IN THE GIRTH WELD. THE SECTION WAS REMOVED AND SENT FOR METALLURGICAL TESTING. THE REPAIR COST AFTER EXCAVATION WAS FOUND TO EXCEED 50,000. METALLURGICAL TESTING HAS BEEN COMPLETED. PLEASE SEE THE ATACHED METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS. ILI DATA WAS REVIEWED BY INTEGRITY TO DETERMINE IF SIMILAR CRACKING WAS PRESENT IN OTHER JOINTS. THEIR REVIEW OF THE ILI DATA INDICATED CRACKING DID NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

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

PHMSA indexed costs: $209,775 reported total cost, $128,922.812 in 1984 dollars, $255,856.49 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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