PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-01-02

Gas transmission and gathering incident in MONTEZUMA, PARKE County, IN. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 13000 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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: 20170010.

Operator ID: 15105.

Reported incident date: 1/2/2017 2:48.

Location detail: MONTEZUMA CS

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: A HIGH NOISE ALARM WAS RECEIVED BY GAS CONTROL FROM THE MONTEZUMA COMPRESSOR STATION. GAS CONTROL CONTACTED THE ON-CALL STATION PERSONNEL. STATION PERSONNEL ARRIVED ON SITE AND VERIFIED THAT THE 1303 AB WAS RELEASING GAS AND WAS IMMEDIATELY ISOLATED BY CLOSING THE ISOLATION VALVE BELOW IT. THE RELIEF VALVE WAS REMOVED, DISMANTLED, REBUILT AND REINSTALLED. THE SUPPLY GAS LINE WAS BLOWN DOWN TO REMOVE ANY POTENTIAL DEBRIS OR LIQUIDS. FITTINGS WERE REPLACED AND TIGHTENED AND THE VALVE WAS THEN RETURNED TO SERVICE WITH NO FURTHER ISSUES IDENTIFIED. ONCE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT ESTIMATES OF POTENTIAL GAS LOSS WERE GREATER THAN 3 MMCF, THE DIRECTOR OF REGULATORY COMPLIANCE WAS NOTIFIED TO MAKE A TELEPHONIC REPORT TO THE NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL REPORT CORRECTED THE LAT/LONG COORDINATES IN PART A(5), AND FINAL UPDATES WERE MADE TO PART G(6). SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT SUBMITTED 01/11/19 TO CORRECT TIMELINE OF EVENTS FOR A-4.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $50,436 reported total cost, $47,429.249 in 1984 dollars, $58,839.526 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.