WEST TEXAS GAS INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-02-09

Gas transmission and gathering incident in EAGLE PASS, MAVERICK County, TX. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 50 NATURAL GAS released, $25,000 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: 20180031.

Operator ID: 22435.

Reported incident date: 2/9/2018 10:55.

Location detail: 44.75

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: EXCAVATION ISSUE

Cause detail: MARKS FADED OR NOT MAINTAINED

Cause detail: DURING TXDOT MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES TO REPLACE/UPGRADE GUARD RAILS ON FM 1021 WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF EAGLE PASS, TX A SUB CONTRACTOR AUGURED INTO THE TOP OF WTG'S 6K-16 EL INDIO PIPELINE. PIPELINE SEGMENT WAS IMMEDIATELY ISOLATED AND DE-PRESSURED. TWO DELIVERIES TO TEXAS STATE GAS WERE IMPACTED AND SUSTAINED OUTAGES FOR APPROXIMATELY EIGHT HOURS.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $45,025 reported total cost, $21,975.472 in 1984 dollars, $52,936.891 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.