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PHMSA Report 20160022
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, LP (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-02-27
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3007 NATURAL GAS released, $404,800 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: 20160022.
Operator ID: 19235.
Reported incident date: 2/27/2016 11:30.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: INDICATIONS OF BUBBLES ON THE WATER SURFACE IN WEST CAMERON 273 WERE REPORTED BY A PLATFORM OPERATOR'S HELICOPTER ON FEBRUARY 27, 2016. UPON INVESTIGATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THE LEAK WAS CAUSED BY A PINHOLE LEAK RESULTING FROM INTERNAL CORROSION ON TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, L.P. 24-INCH LINE 41-A NATURAL GAS PIPELINE. REPAIR BY INSTALLATION OF A CLAMP WAS COMPLETED MARCH 5, 2016.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $456,240 reported total cost, $256,173.436 in 1984 dollars, $563,246.815 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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