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PHMSA Report 20170083
BLUESTONE PIPELINE COMPANY OF PA, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-09-02
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in SUSQUEHANNA, SUSQUEHANNA County, PA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 10800 NATURAL GAS released, $1,015 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: 20170083.
Operator ID: 38932.
Reported incident date: 9/2/2017 1:02.
Location detail: MILEPOST 10.5
Cause detail: COMPRESSOR OR COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT
Cause detail: SECOND NRC REPORT NUMBER (48 HOUR) IS 1189751. HARMONY COMPRESSOR STATION (HCS) HAD AN UNINTENTIONAL RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2017, FROM APPROXIMATELY 01:02 TO 02:41. A LOCAL NEIGHBOR TO HCS CONTACTED 911 TO REPORT THE EVENT. AFTER SUCH, 911 CONTACTED DTE GAS CONTROL AT 01:02. DTE GAS CONTROL CONTACTED THE ON CALL TECHNICIAN TO INFORM THEM THAT A REPORT OF BLOWING GAS HAD BEEN MADE. THE TECHNICIAN, UPON ARRIVAL AT HCS, DISCOVERED THAT THE PILOT FOR UNIT 2 RELIEF VALVE HAD FAILED. AT 02:41, THE TECHNICIAN PUSHED THE EMERGENCY SHUT DOWN BUTTON AND UNIT 2 BECAME INACTIVE. UPON TAKING UNIT 2 OUT OF SERVICE, THE TECHNICIAN REPAIRED THE PILOT AND THEN PLACED UNIT 2 BACK INTO SERVICE AT 03:43. AFTER INVESTIGATION INTO THE MATTER, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE PILOT HAD FAILED DUE TO A PREVIOUS VIBRATION ISSUE ON UNIT 2. THE INCIDENT AND INVESTIGATION WAS DISCUSSED WITH THE PA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION AFTER THE FAILURE OCCURRED.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — PUMP/COMPRESSOR OR PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $34,051 reported total cost, $31,723.491 in 1984 dollars, $39,749.001 in current-year dollars.
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