{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20150036","title":"TRANSWESTERN PIPELINE COMPANY LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-02-22","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2015-03-23","effective_on":"2015-02-22","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in CORONA, LINCOLN County, NM. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 130000 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-48f8c8f9a248910c95dfc62e.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-48f8c8f9a248910c95dfc62e.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-48f8c8f9a248910c95dfc62e","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 CORONA, LINCOLN County, NM. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 130000 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.\n\nReport number: 20150036.\n\nOperator ID: 19610.\n\nReported incident date: 2/22/2015 17:50.\n\nLocation detail: 289950.2\n\nCause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT\n\nCause detail: THE TW CORONA COMPRESSOR STATION 8 - SIX INCH DISCHARGE BLOWDOWN VALVE OPENED UNINTENTIONALLY AND BLEW GAS TO THE ATMOSPHERE. THE BLOW DOWN VALVE, SHAFER OPERATOR PILOT GAS LINE FROZE OFF, DUE TO SUB ZERO TEMPERATURES CAUSING A LOSS OF PILOT PRESSURE, WHICH HOLDS THE VALVE IN THE CLOSED POSITION.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $365,386 reported total cost, $338,796.878 in 1984 dollars, $415,991.103 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":1313}