DESTIN PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-07-20

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 released, $2,500 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: 20160067.

Operator ID: 31088.

Reported incident date: 7/20/2016 9:11.

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: A SMALL AMOUNT OF CONDENSATE WAS RELEASED THROUGH THE MP260 PLATFORM FLARE. AS THE CONDENSATE EXITED THE FLARE TOWER IT IGNITED ON THE TIP. THE EXPELLED CONDENSATE FELL TO THE SURFACE WATERS OF THE GULF OF MEXICO. THE CONDENSATE SELF-EXTINGUISHED WITHIN AN ESTIMATED 2-3 MINUTES. ESD OF THE PLATFORM WAS INITIATED AT FIRST DETECTION. NO FURTHER SHEEN OR DEBRIS WAS NOTED IN THE WATER AFTER THE FIRE BURNED OUT. NO GAS WAS UNINTENTIONALLY RELEASED. NO INJURIES RESULTED FROM THE LOSS OF CONTAINMENT AND ALL PERSONNEL WERE ACCOUNTED FOR. A MALFUNCTIONING LEVEL SWITCH IN A SCRUBBER IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PERMITTED THE COLLECTED LIQUID TO ACCUMULATE ABOVE THE DESIGN LEVEL, A PORTION OF WHICH BECAME EXPELLED WITH FLARE GAS.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $2,500 reported total cost, $1,243.86 in 1984 dollars, $3,063.244 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.