# KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-04-23

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20150070
- **title:** KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-04-23
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2015-05-22
- **effective on:** 2015-04-23
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 500 NATURAL GAS released, $170,000 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 500 NATURAL GAS released, $170,000 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: 20150070.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 4/23/2015 16:30.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: OVER FLIGHT OF THE AREA RESULTED IN A LEAK BEING IDENTIFIED ON THE KINETICA 523M-1300 PIPELINE. THE LINE WAS IMMEDIATELY ISOLATED AT THE PLATFORM AND A DIVE VESSEL WAS DISPATCHED TO CLOSE OFF THE SUBSEA VALVE FROM THE BLUEWATER HEADER. THE LOCATION WAS EXCAVATED AFTER PRESSURE REDUCTION AND A PINHOLE LEAK WAS IDENTIFIED AT THE 6:00 POSITION. A REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $190,554 reported total cost, $102,213.831 in 1984 dollars, $233,912.117 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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