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PHMSA Report 20120090
EL PASO NATURAL GAS CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-08-16
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in GRAY County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 14590 NATURAL GAS released, $2,747 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: 20120090.
Operator ID: 4280.
Reported incident date: 8/16/2012 16:20.
Location detail: 68
Cause detail: DEFECTIVE OR LOOSE TUBING OR FITTING
Cause detail: GRAY COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED TO EPNG GAS CONTROL A POSSIBLE RELIEF VALVE RELIEVING. EPNG EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO INVESTIGATE. TRAFFIC WAS STOPPED ON COUNTY ROAD K UNTIL THE RELIEF VALVE WAS SHUT-IN AND THE AREA MADE SAFE. EPNG EMPLOYEE SHUT THE VALVE IN AT 17:06 CENTRAL TIME.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — DEFECTIVE OR LOOSE TUBING/FITTING.
PHMSA indexed costs: $43,569 reported total cost, $35,456.299 in 1984 dollars, $45,491.98 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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