# ENLINK LBU-GAS&LIQUIDS — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2019-03-04

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20190036
- **title:** ENLINK LBU-GAS&LIQUIDS — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2019-03-04
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2019-03-29
- **effective on:** 2019-03-04
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, DESOTO County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 NATURAL GAS released, $131,536 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, DESOTO County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 NATURAL GAS released, $131,536 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: 20190036.

Operator ID: 32005.

Reported incident date: 3/4/2019 15:20.

Location detail: MP16.43

Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: DURING THE ANNUAL CP SURVEY, OPERATIONS PERSONNEL FOUND AN APPARENT SMALL LEAK INSIDE A CASING AT A RAILROAD CROSSING. THE LEL ON THE VENT PIPE WAS FOUND TO BE 15%. IF THE REPAIR COST DID NOT EXCEED THE $50,000 THRESHOLD, THIS INCIDENT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REPORTABLE. THE ACTUAL LEAK WAS A MINOR PIN HOLE INSIDE THE CASING. IT APPEARS THE COATING WAS DAMAGED DURING THE INITIAL INSTALLATION OF THE CROSSING. THE CASING WAS NOT SHORTED. THE ESTIMATED GAS LOSS IS <1MCF.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $131,964 reported total cost, $62,075.264 in 1984 dollars, $152,324.338 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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