BEAR CREEK STORAGE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-11-09

Gas transmission and gathering incident in BIENVILLE, BIENVILLE County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 107 NATURAL GAS released, $50,000 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: 20150146.

Operator ID: 1217.

Reported incident date: 11/9/2015 3:30.

Location detail: MP 2+1703

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: CONTRACTOR WAS WORKING ON ROW AND DISCOVERED BUBBLES COMING UP IN MUD AND HIGH PRESSURE 'AIR' COMING FROM GROUND. CONTRACTOR CONTACTED BEAR CREEK STORAGE EMPLOYEE. EMPLOYEE ARRIVED WITH GAS DETECTOR AND DETERMINED THAT A GAS RELEASE WAS EVIDENT IN A CREEK COMING THROUGH MATTING. THE LEAK WAS INITIALLY DISCOVERED ON 11/9/2015 AND DURING AN INITIAL CONFERENCE CALL THAT DAY WAS DETERMINED TO NET BE REPORTABLE. ON 11/10/2015, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE REPAIR COSTS FOR THE EVENT WOULD EXCEED $50,000, THUS MAKING THE EVENT REPORTABLE. THE NRC WAS CONTACTED ON 11/10/2015. REPAIR PERFORMED BY REPLACING A SEGMENT OF PIPE. PIPELINE RETURNED TO SERVICE ON 11/20/2015. UPDATED 6/23/2016 TO REVISE CAUSE OF CORROSION IN SECTIONS G7 AND G8 BASED OFF METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS. SUBMITTED REPORT AS FINAL ON 8/16/2016 WITH NO CHANGES.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $53,054 reported total cost, $27,915.102 in 1984 dollars, $65,249.522 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.