TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-11-27

Gas transmission and gathering incident in LA FAYETTE, ONONDAGA County, NY. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 25230 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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: 20130119.

Operator ID: 19160.

Reported incident date: 11/27/2013 22:19.

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: LA FAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT NOTIFIED TENNESEE GAS PIPELINE (TGP) GAS CONTROL OF A POSSIBLE RELEASE IN THE STATION 241 FACILITY. TGP OPERATIONS PERSONNEL WERE DEPLOYED TO THE LOCATION AND SHUT-IN THE RELIEF VALVE AT 23:25 EASTERN TIME. THE RELIEF VALVE HAS BEEN INSPECTED AND TESTED AND IS OPERATIONAL. THE CAUSE IS UNKNOWN BUT THE RAIN / ICE STORM THAT OCCUR THAT EVENING IS SUSPECTED AS THE CAUSE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $88,817 reported total cost, $71,890.809 in 1984 dollars, $88,270.994 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.