# NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CO OF AMERICA (KMI) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-10-04

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20170100
- **title:** NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CO OF AMERICA (KMI) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-10-04
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2017-11-01
- **effective on:** 2017-10-04
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, BARTON County, KS. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1488 NATURAL GAS released, $62,100 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: significant incident, not serious.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, BARTON County, KS. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1488 NATURAL GAS released, $62,100 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: 20170100.

Operator ID: 13120.

Reported incident date: 10/4/2017 15:19.

Location detail: MP 252

Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: 10/04/2017; EMPLOYEE PERFORMING CIVIL SURVEY TASKS ON NGPL AMARILLO #2 LINE FOUND THE LEAK BY OBSERVING A SMALL AMOUNT OF BLOWING SOIL; PIPELINE LEAK CONFIRMED WITH NATURAL GAS DETECTION EQUIPMENT. PIPELINE VALVE SECTION WAS ISOLATED, BLOWN DOWN AND SECURED SAME DAY. EXCAVATION OF THE LEAK SITE BEGAN ON 10/10/2017. REPAIR OF THE PIPELINE BY PIPE REPLACEMENT WAS COMPLETED ON 10/23/2017. THE PIPELINE VALVE SECTION WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE ON 10/24/2017. ALL TIMES IN THIS REPORT ARE CENTRAL TIME ZONE. PIR = 479 FEET; PIR WITH KM BUFFER = 519 FEET;

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $100,171 reported total cost, $66,389.488 in 1984 dollars, $119,151.443 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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