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PHMSA Report 20120076
TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE CO (EL PASO) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-07-15
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 100 NATURAL GAS released, $110,000 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: 20120076.
Operator ID: 19160.
Reported incident date: 7/15/2012 14:30.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE WAS NOTIFIED OF A 20 FOOT DIAMETER RING OF BUBBLES IN THE VICINTY OF ITS 12 INCH SNG EC 46 LINE. DIVERS CONFIRMED A PINHOLE LEAK AT THE 4 O'CLOCK POSITION, 8 FEET FROM A FIELD JOINT. A REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED AND THE LINE WAS PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $119,297 reported total cost, $63,850.509 in 1984 dollars, $153,844.245 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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