PHMSA Report 20120116
PHMSA Report 20120116
Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3286 NATURAL GAS released, $475,000 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: 20120116.
Operator ID: 18152.
Reported incident date: 10/21/2012 15:30.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: ** THE REASON FOR THIS SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT IS TO CORRECT THE LAT. AND LONG. COORDINANTS PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED IN THE ORIGINAL/FINAL REPORT. **THIS REPORT IS BEING SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO PHMSA'S REQUEST, (DOCKET ID PHMSA-2013-0028), FOR SUPPLEMENTAL REPORTS FROM OPERATORS WHO SUBMITTED REPORTS FOR INCIDENTS OCCURRING AFTER JANUARY 1, 2010, WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) ``PIPE GIRTH WELD'' WAS SELECTED AS THE ``ITEM INVOLVED IN INCIDENT'' IN PART C3 OF THE REPORT. THE REVISED REPORT COLLECTS DATA ABOUT THE PIPE ADJACENT TO THE GIRTH WELD. (2) ``FUNCTION OF PIPELINE SYSTEM'' IS NULL IN PART E5F OF THE REPORT. THE REVISED REPORT COLLECTS THE FUNCTION OF THE PIPELINE SYSTEM FOR ALL INCIDENTS.** THIS SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE TWO RELEVANT SECTIONS IN PHMSA'S REQUEST HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND NO FURTHER ACTIONS WERE NEEDED.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $483,600 reported total cost, $255,822.342 in 1984 dollars, $626,299.332 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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