SEA ROBIN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-12-03

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4469 NATURAL GAS released, $300,000 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: 20140149.

Operator ID: 18152.

Reported incident date: 12/3/2014 16:30.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 16:30 PM ON 12/03/2014, GAS CONTROL RECEIVED A CALL FROM PRODUCER PLATFORM PERSONNEL AT ANKOR'S SMI 27JA PLATFORM REPORTING SEEING BUBBLES SOUTH OF THEIR FACILITY IN THE SMI 27 BLOCK. WEATHER PREVENTED PERSONNEL TO INVESTIGATE OVERNIGHT. THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED (NRC # 1102618), AT 11:30 AM ON 12/04 OF A POSSIBLE LEAK. WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE A FLIGHT ON 12/05 AND BASED ON THE COORDINATES FOR THE LEAK, WE SHUT DOWN THE PIPELINE AT 15:30 PM ON 12/05/14. THE PIPELINE WAS REPAIRED AND RESTARTED AT 21:30 PM ON 12/12/14.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $416,360 reported total cost, $232,719.654 in 1984 dollars, $473,719.069 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.