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PHMSA Report 20160035
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, LP (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-04-09
Current as of 2016-04-09 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, SCIOTO County, OH. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3800 NATURAL GAS released, $15,000 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: 20160035.
Operator ID: 19235.
Reported incident date: 4/9/2016 22:50.
Location detail: 563.72
Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT
Cause detail: TEXAS EASTERN'S WHEELERSBURG COMPRESSOR STATION EXPERIENCED AN INADVERTENT NATURAL GAS RELEASE APRIL 9, 2016 WHICH WAS CAUSED BY A 3 WAY SOLENOID VALVE MALFUNCTION. THE MALFUNCTION WAS THE RESULT OF A SUPPLY GAS PRESSURE LEAK. THE SUPPLY GAS PRESSURE LEAK CAUSED THE FLEX FLOW VALVE TO OPEN WHICH ACTIVATED THE ESD VALVES RELEASING NATURAL GAS TO ATMOSPHERE.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $22,600 reported total cost, $15,554.803 in 1984 dollars, $28,314.773 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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