GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-08-26

Current as of 2015-08-26 Government source

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety AdministrationOfficial agency material

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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2631 NATURAL GAS released, $625,000 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: 20150114.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 8/26/2015 20:45.

Cause detail: MISCELLANEOUS

Cause detail: DIVE COMPANY WAS JETTING TO EXPOSE SUB-SEA TIE-IN VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR PIPELINE ABANDONMENT. LINE DISCONNECTED, GAS RELEASED AND IGNITED AT THE SURFACE. CAUSE IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. 7-7-16 DIVE COMPANY WAS JETTING TO EXPOSE SUB-SEA TIE-IN VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR PIPELINE ABANDONMENT. SUB-SEA CONNECTOR APPEARED TO BE DAMAGED DURING WORK ACTIVITIES, THEREBY, CAUSING A GAS RELEASE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.

PHMSA indexed costs: $843,098 reported total cost, $426,400.508 in 1984 dollars, $1,040,821.135 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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