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PHMSA Report 20120051
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION LP (SPECTRA ENERGY CORP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-04-19
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 400 NATURAL GAS released, $300,000 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: 20120051.
Operator ID: 19235.
Reported incident date: 4/19/2012 16:30.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: BUBBLES WERE OBSERVED BY THE PISCES ENERGY PLATFORM OPERATORS ON APRIL 19, 2012. DIVERS DISCOVERED A PINHOLE LEAK IN THE TEXAS EASTERN 20-INCH LINE 41-A-6 WHICH WAS CAUSED BY INTERNAL CORROSION. TWO LEAK CLAMPS WERE INSTALLED AND THE PIPELINE WAS RETURNED TO FULL SERVICE ON MAY 8, 2012.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $339,188 reported total cost, $190,735.708 in 1984 dollars, $429,312.199 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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