TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-07-13

Gas transmission and gathering incident in DUBACH, LINCOLN County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 23728 NATURAL GAS released, $404,133 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: 20160063.

Operator ID: 19270.

Reported incident date: 7/13/2016 1:20.

Location detail: 36+2320

Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: TEXAS GAS EXPERIENCED A PIPELINE FAILURE ON ITS GUTHRIE-LISBON 20" PIPELINE IN LINCOLN PARISH, LA. THERE WERE NO INJURIES OR FIRE. THE CAUSE APPEARS TO BE EXTERNAL CORROSION. TEXAS GAS HAS REPLACED THE SECTION OF PIPE AND RETURNED THE FACILITY TO SERVICE. TEXAS GAS WILL OPERATE THE PIPELINE AT 80% OF FAILURE PRESSURE UNTIL AN ILI HAS BEEN PERFORMED AND ANY ANOMALIES HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED. 4-4-17 UPDATED WITH FINAL COST FOR THE PIPELINE RUPTURE. THIS IS THE FINAL REPORT.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $483,235 reported total cost, $280,472.288 in 1984 dollars, $597,894.624 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.