# ALASKA PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-02-03

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20150042
- **title:** ALASKA PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-02-03
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2015-04-01
- **effective on:** 2015-02-03
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH County, AK. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1300 NATURAL GAS released, $60,000 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: not significant, not serious.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH County, AK. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1300 NATURAL GAS released, $60,000 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: 20150042.

Operator ID: 207.

Reported incident date: 2/3/2015 16:09.

Location detail: MP46

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

Cause detail: A PINHOLE LEAK WAS FOUND IN A GIRTH WELD DURING A ROUTING ANNUAL LEAK SURVEY. THE GAS LEAKAGE WAS MINIMAL. THE PIPELINE REMAINED IN SERVICE DURING A COLD SPELL, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE. AFTER THE SECTION WAS REPLACED, IT WAS FOUND THAT THE WELD HAD AN INCOMPLETE ROOT PASS AND HAD A LESS THAN 3", HAIRLINE FRACTURE UNDERNEATH THE PINHOLE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

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

PHMSA indexed costs: $68,300 reported total cost, $35,668.203 in 1984 dollars, $84,061.357 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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