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PHMSA Report 20120046
TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-04-09
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in N/A, TERREBONNE County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 21000 NATURAL GAS released, $1,000,000 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: 20120046.
Operator ID: 19270.
Reported incident date: 4/9/2012 12:05.
Location detail: 10+9813
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: ON APRIL 9, 2012, AT APPROXIMATELY 12:15PM, TEXAS GAS RECEIVED A CALL FROM A PRODUCER INFORMING US OF A FAILURE AND FIRE ON THE NORTH LAKE PAGIE-BAY JUNOP 16" PIPELINE. WE IMMEDIATELY BEGAN DEVELOPING AN ISOLATION PLAN TO IDENTIFY PRODUCERS AND CRITICAL VALVES TO SHUT IN THE PIPELINE AND DISPATCHED PERSONNEL BY BOAT. IT WAS DETERMINED THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE LOCATION WAS AT GPS COORDINATES 29 DEGREES, 14 MINUTES, 22 SECONDS NORTH AND 91 DEGREES, 01 MINUTES, 27 SECONDS WEST IN TERREBONNE PARISH. THE PIPELINE WAS SHUT IN BY 3:50PM. ADDITIONAL NRC REPORTS: 1008151, 1008154, 1008163, & 1008183. PIPELINE REMAINS OUT OF SERVICE PENDING DECISION ON TYPE OF REPAIR. 12-16-13 THIS SEGMENT OF PIPE IS SCHEDULED TO BE ABANONDONED IN 2014. 3-4-15 THE ABANDONMENT IS IN THE PERMITTING PROCESS AND IS NOW EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETE IN 2016 OR 2017. 11-10-15 THIS LINE IS SCHEDULED TO BE ABANDONED IN PLACE IN 2017. BOARDWALK IS PREPARING TO FILE FOR FERC APPROVAL. 4-18-17 TEXAS GAS IS ON SCHEDULE TO ABANDON IN 2017. 4-26-18 FERC APPROVAL FOR ABANDONMENT IS STILL PENDING. THE APPROVAL IS EXPECTED IN OCTOBER 2018; THEREFORE, THE ABANDONMENT PROJECT IS NOW PLANNED FOR 2019.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $1,118,000 reported total cost, $602,111.591 in 1984 dollars, $1,438,473.409 in current-year dollars.
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