KINETICA DEEPWATER EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-01-18

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 555 NATURAL GAS released, $100,000 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: 20170020.

Operator ID: 39519.

Reported incident date: 1/18/2017 14:26.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: 14:26 ON 1/18/17, BSEE CALLED REGARDING NRC REPORT #1168876 IN THE VICINITY OF KINETICA LINE IN WC 165. REPORT CALLED IN BY ERA PILOT WITH BUBBLES AND 1 MI X 15 MI SHEEN. UPON RECEIPT OF NOTICE, KINETICA HELICOPTER COULD NOT FLY TO LOCATION DUE TO WEATHER. DSV WORKING IN THE SHIP SHOAL AREA WAS DISPATCHED, ARRIVED ON LOCATION AT 14:40 ON 1/19/17 AND CONFIRMED COORDINATES. DSV REPORTED 5' - 6' BUBBLE FIELD AND STREAKY SHEENING. ESTIMATE ON CONDENSATE SPILLED WAS 5 - 10 GALLONS. AT 14:54 NRC WAS CALLED TO UPDATE EXISTING REPORT AND TAKE OWNERSHIP OF LEAK. THEY TOLD ME I COULD NOT AMEND REPORT AND THAT I NEEDED TO CALL THE LOCAL USCG OFFICE (PORT ARTHUR) REGARDING OWNERSHIP. PIPELINE WAS NOT FLOWING AS PLATFORM HAD RECENTLY BEEN SHUT IN PREPARING FOR REMOVAL OF STRUCTURE. 1/20/17 RECEIVED CALL FROM DAVID YORK (PHMSA) REQUESTING THAT I CALL IN ANOTHER NRC REPORT TO CLAIM OWNERSHIP, WHICH I DID AT 08:31 ON 1/20/17 (REPORT #1169041). PRESSURE WAS REDUCED ON THE LINE AND DSV INSTALLED REPAIR CLAMP. DIVER FOUND TWO SMALL HOLES AT 7 O'CLOCK POSITION ASSUMED TO BE CORROSION PITTING. LINE WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO SERVICE AND HAS BEEN PLACED ON 2017 ABANDONMENT LIST.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $106,665 reported total cost, $52,906.704 in 1984 dollars, $128,340.702 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.