{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20120100","title":"TARGA RESOURCES OPERATING LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-09-07","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2012-10-03","effective_on":"2012-09-07","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in ELDORADO, SHLEICHER County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 6518 NATURAL GAS released, $12,000 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.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-41fb0d9f35593b902a44512f.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-41fb0d9f35593b902a44512f.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-41fb0d9f35593b902a44512f","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in ELDORADO, SHLEICHER County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 6518 NATURAL GAS released, $12,000 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.\n\nReport number: 20120100.\n\nOperator ID: 32296.\n\nReported incident date: 9/7/2012 14:29.\n\nLocation detail: 05062\n\nCause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION\n\nCause detail: INTEGRITY PRESSURE TESTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH TEXAS TITLE 16, CHAPTER 8, SUBCHAPTER B WS BEING CONDUCTED ON 9/7/12. THE PRESSURE TEST ON THE PIPELINE WAS TO BE AT 1152 FOR 8 HRS. AS THE PIPELINE WAS BEING PRESSURED UP, A RUPTURE OF THE LINE OCCURRED (AT APPROXIMATELY 1,040 PSIG ON THE PIPELINE).THE CAUSE OF THE RUPTURE WAS DUE TO EXTERNAL CORROSION ON THE PIPELINE. WHEN THE PIPELINE RUPTURED, PERSONNEL WERE IN THE AREA TO ISOLATE VALVES. AFTER THE EXPLOSION A FIRE WAS STARTED, WHICH THEN STARTED A GRASS FIRE. THE SCHLEICHER COUNTY VFD AND IRION COUNTY VFD RESPONDED TO THE FIRE ALONG WITH THE IRION COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT. IT WAS CALCULATED THAT 6,518 MCF WAS LOST IN THE BLOW-OUT.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $42,900 reported total cost, $29,688.518 in 1984 dollars, $49,395.8 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1639}