ANR PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-01-30

Gas transmission and gathering incident in LINEVILLE, WAYNE County, IA. Reported cause: INCORRECT OPERATION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 17020 NATURAL GAS released, $5,000 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: 20120021.

Operator ID: 405.

Reported incident date: 1/30/2012 9:00.

Location detail: 35

Cause detail: OTHER INCORRECT OPERATION

Cause detail: ANR'S LINEVILLE COMPRESSOR STATION EXPERIENCED AN ESD EVENT AT APPROXIMATELY 6:30 AM ON JANUARY 30TH 2012. THE INITIAL CAUSE OF THE ESD WAS A FAILED COPPER OIL LINE THAT CAUSED A FIRE. THE FIRE DETECTION RESULTED IN THE ESD OF THE COMPRESSOR STATION. DURING THE STATION ISOLATION AND BLOW-DOWN IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT ONE OF THE STATION ISOLATION VALVES WAS NOT IN THE PROPER OPERATING POSITION, RESULTING A REPORTABLE GAS RELEASE. THE VENTING OF GAS WAS STOPPED BY FIELD PERSONAL AT APPROXIMATELY 7:00 AM.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: INCORRECT OPERATION — OTHER INCORRECT OPERATION.

PHMSA indexed costs: $115,000 reported total cost, $91,410.014 in 1984 dollars, $121,993.498 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.