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PHMSA Report 20170114
PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-11-05
Current as of 2017-11-05 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in TUSCOLA, DOUGLAS County, IL. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 5275 NATURAL GAS released, $228 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: 20170114.
Operator ID: 15105.
Reported incident date: 11/5/2017 18:40.
Location detail: 0+00
Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT
Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 13:13 PM CST ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH, 2017, THE AUTOMATIC BLOW DOWN (ABD) FOR UNIT 1215 OPENED WHILE THE UNIT WAS RUNNING. THE UNIT WAS STOPPED BY STATION PERSONNEL AT 13:39 PM CST. ONCE THE VOLUME RELEASED WAS CONFIRMED, THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED (NRC# 1195292) AS WELL AS THE PHMSA AID. THE 48 HR NRC NOTIFICATION WAS MADE ON 11/7/17, (NRC# 1195625). THIS SUPPLEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO CORRECT THE COORDINATES IN PART A, QUESTION #5.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $16,686 reported total cost, $15,738.638 in 1984 dollars, $19,462.28 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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