ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-08-07

Gas transmission and gathering incident in ROYALTY, WARD County, TX. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 17.62 released, $269,000 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: 20140092.

Operator ID: 31618.

Reported incident date: 8/7/2014 18:15.

Location detail: MLBV NO. 1

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: NOTIFICATION ISSUE

Cause detail: NO NOTIFICATION MADE TO THE ONE-CALL CENTER/811

Cause detail: ON 8/7/14 AT APPROXIMATELY 4:30 PM, GAS CONTROL RECEIVED A CALL ABOUT A POSSIBLE LEAK ON THE NORTH TEXAS (NT) 36" LINE. A PIPELINE TECHNICIAN RESPONDED AND VERIFIED THAT AN ELECTRIC CONTRACTOR HAD STRUCK EPCO'S LINE WHILE SETTING ANCHORS FOR THE PULLING UNIT. THERE WAS A SMALL AMOUNT OF GAS LEAKING FROM THE PIPELINE; HOWEVER, THERE WAS NO LIQUIDS RELEASED, NO FIRE, AND NO INJURIES. THE LOCATION OF THE PIPELINE STRIKE WAS NORTHWEST OF GRANDFALLS, TX., WEST OF CR 1219 IN WARD COUNTY, TX. THE PIPELINE WAS IMMEDIATELY ISOLATED AND VENTED. THE DAMAGED PIPE WAS REPLACED AND RETURNED TO SERVICE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $412,070 reported total cost, $235,466.838 in 1984 dollars, $457,668.143 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.