# TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, LP (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-04-09

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- **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.
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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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