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PHMSA Report 20140082
SEADRIFT PIPELINE CORP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-07-05
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in BERCLAIR, GOLIAD County, TX. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3554 NATURAL GAS released, $75,000 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: 20140082.
Operator ID: 18156.
Reported incident date: 7/5/2014 2:27.
Location detail: 13.8/722+34
Cause detail: ORIGINAL MANUFACTURING-RELATED (NOT GIRTH WELD OR OTHER WELDS FORMED IN THE FIELD)
Cause detail: ON JULY 5TH A RUPTURE OCCURRED ON AN 8 INCH FUEL GAS PIPELINE IN A REMOTE AREA OF SOUTH TEXAS RESULTING IN A RELEASE OF METHANE. A CHANGE IN PRESSURE ON THE PIPELINE WAS NOTICED AT THE CONTROL ROOM, AND TECHNICIANS WERE DISPATCHED TO DETERMINE IF A LEAK OCCURRED. EMERGENCY RESPONDERS WERE ALERTED AS A PRECAUTION. THE PIPELINE SECTION WAS ISOLATED. THE LEAK WAS SECURED. THERE WERE NO PUBLIC CALLS OR IMPACT. LOCATION WAS IN A RURAL AREA. THE INVESTIGATION INCLUDED A METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS CONDUCTED ON THE SECTION OF PIPE THAT RUPTURED. BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THAT ANALYSIS, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE RUPTURE WAS DUE TO HYDROGEN-INDUCED CRACKING CAUSED BY THE INDUCTION BEND NOT BEING TEMPERED AFTER IT WAS QUENCHED DURING ORIGINAL MANUFACTURE. THE SECTION OF PIPE THAT CONTAINED THE RUPTURE HAS BEEN REPAIRED, BUT REMAINS OUT OF SERVICE. AN INSPECTION WILL BE COMPLETE PRIOR TO PUTTING THE LINE BACK IN SERVICE.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — MANUFACTURING-RELATED.
PHMSA indexed costs: $90,000 reported total cost, $48,432.891 in 1984 dollars, $106,461.904 in current-year dollars.
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