PHMSA Report 20170071
PHMSA Report 20170071
Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 300 NATURAL GAS released, $62,000 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: 20170071.
Operator ID: 32296.
Reported incident date: 7/25/2017 15:15.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: TARGA RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM A 3RD PARTY OF A LEAK NEAR THE LOCATION OF TARGA'S PIPELINE. INVESTIGATION BY TARGA CONFIRMED THE LEAK WAS FROM TARGA'S PIPELINE. PIPELINE LEAK WAS REPAIRED BY INSTALLATION OF A CLAMP COMPLETED ON 07/27/2017.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $63,000 reported total cost, $31,256.155 in 1984 dollars, $75,801.782 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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