# GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-11-25

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20130116
- **title:** GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-11-25
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2013-12-19
- **effective on:** 2013-11-25
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in FLOWOOD, RANKIN County, MS. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 812 NATURAL GAS released, $100,000 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: significant incident, not serious.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in FLOWOOD, RANKIN County, MS. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 812 NATURAL GAS released, $100,000 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: 20130116.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 11/25/2013 11:10.

Location detail: 124.527

Cause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED

Cause detail: PIPE FAILED IN AREA OF GIRTH WELD IN PIPELINE LOCATED INSIDE COMPRESSOR STATION YARD. CAUSE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. 5-23-14 CAUSE WAS WELD FAILURE FROM A ONE-TIME LOAD EVENT. APPROXIMATELY AN 800' SECTION OF PIPELINE, WHICH INCLUDED THE AREA WHERE THE PIPE FAILED, WAS ABANDONED AND WILL NOT BE REPLACED.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED.

PHMSA indexed costs: $111,842 reported total cost, $58,678.961 in 1984 dollars, $141,667.6 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.
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