{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20160035","title":"TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, LP (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-04-09","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2016-05-06","effective_on":"2016-04-09","summary":"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. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-33213d61158310951216ef01.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-33213d61158310951216ef01.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-33213d61158310951216ef01","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"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.\n\nReport number: 20160035.\n\nOperator ID: 19235.\n\nReported incident date: 4/9/2016 22:50.\n\nLocation detail: 563.72\n\nCause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT\n\nCause 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.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $22,600 reported total cost, $15,554.803 in 1984 dollars, $28,314.773 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1384}