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PHMSA Report 20150153
SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-11-28
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in DELAWARE, NOWATA County, OK. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 739 NATURAL GAS released, $276,000 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: 20150153.
Operator ID: 31711.
Reported incident date: 11/28/2015 11:00.
Location detail: 100/121+42
Cause detail: HEAVY RAINS/FLOODS
Cause detail: AT 12:36 ON 11/28/2015 SSC MEASUREMENT PERSONNEL RECEIVED A CALL FROM AN EMPLOYEE WITH OKLAHOMA NATURAL GAS NOTIFYING OF A LOW PRESSURE AT THE DELAWARE TB. WHILE IN ROUTE SSC MEASUREMENT NOTIFIED GAS CONTROL OF THE LOW PRESSURE NOTIFICATION. SSC GAS CONTROL REVIEWED SCADA AND COULD NOT SEE THE TB MEASUREMENT BECAUSE OF A COMMUNICATION OUTAGE DUE TO ICE ON THE EQUIPMENT. AT 14:05 ON 11/28/15 SSC GAS CONTROL RECEIVED A CALL FROM AN EMPLOYEE WITH UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD NOTIFYING OF A LEAKING PIPELINE IN CALIFORNIA CREEK NEAR THEIR RAILROAD. AT 14:08 SSC GAS CONTROL NOTIFIED SSC MEASUREMENT WHO WAS CURRENTLY IN ROUTE. SSC OPERATIONS ARRIVED ONSITE AT APPROXIMATELY 14:14. IT WAS DETERMINED THE UPSTREAM REGULATION VALVE WOULD BE CLOSED TO ELIMINATE THE BLOWING GAS. THE LINE WAS BLOWN DOWN AT 15:15 CAUSING THE GAS LOSS OF APPROXIMATELY 100 CUSTOMERS IN THE TOWN OF DELAWARE. CNG TANK TRUCKS WERE BROUGHT IN AND THE TOWN WAS RETURNED TO PRESSURE AND ALL CUSTOMERS WERE RELIT BY 8:21 ON 11/29/2015.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — HEAVY RAINS/FLOODS.
PHMSA indexed costs: $279,930 reported total cost, $141,040.15 in 1984 dollars, $345,701.154 in current-year dollars.
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