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PHMSA Report 20030030
FLORIDA GAS TRANSMISSION CO (ENRON) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2003-03-05
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in DICKINSON, GALVESTON County, TX. Reported cause: 19. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $99,970 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: 20030030.
Operator ID: 5304.
Reported incident date: 3/5/2003.
Cause detail: PIPE SEAM WELD
Cause detail: THIS PIPELINE SEGMENT WAS INSPECTED IN 1999 USING A HIGH RESOLUTION MAGNETIC FLUX LEAKAGE TOOL AND IN NOVEMBER 2002, WITH A HIGH RESOLUTION CIRCUMFERENTIALLY ORIENTED MAGNETIC FLUX (TFI) TOOL WITH NO INDICATION BY EITHER DEVICE OF AN ANOMALY AT THE LEAK LOCATION.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — PIPE SEAM.
PHMSA indexed costs: $99,970 reported total cost, $65,684.44 in 1984 dollars, $118,403.811 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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