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PHMSA Report 20120082
TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE CO (EL PASO) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-07-20
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in KINDER, JEFFERSON DAVIS County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 11480 NATURAL GAS released, $16,000 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: 20120082.
Operator ID: 19160.
Reported incident date: 7/20/2012 21:10.
Location detail: 0+00
Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT
Cause detail: DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER, TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE EXPERIENCED AN ESD AT STATION 823 ITS KINDER COMPRESSOR STATION. ONE BLOCK VALVE FAILED TO CLOSE COMPLETELY ALLOWING NATURAL GAS TO VENT AND EXCEED THE REPORTING REQUIREMENT.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $46,700 reported total cost, $33,447.83 in 1984 dollars, $52,775.918 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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