SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-12-27

Gas transmission and gathering incident in OGALLAH, TREGO County, KS. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 17.17 released, $2,659,055 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: 20140012.

Operator ID: 31711.

Reported incident date: 12/27/2013 19:52.

Location detail: 210/3872+86

Cause detail: UNKNOWN

Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 19:45 ON 12/27/2013 SSCGP GAS CONTROL BEGAN RECEIVING ALARMS FOR AC POWER, WATER TANK LEVEL, AND STATION FUEL AT THE OGALLAH COMPRESSOR STATION. AT THIS TIME OPERATIONS WAS CALLED AND GAVE AND ETA OF 30 MINUTES TO ARRIVE ON SCENE. THE ESD ALARM CAME INTO GAS CONTROL AT 19:52. OPERATIONS ARRIVED ON SCENE AT 20:01 AND SAW FLAMES COMING FROM THE BOILER ROOM WINDOWS, AT THIS TIME THE ESD VALVE WAS PULLED (STATION WAS ALREADY IN AN ESD STATE). OPERATIONS CALLED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AT 20:08 AND THEN ADDITIONAL OPERATIONS AND GAS CONTROL TO CONFIRM THE INCIDENT. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ARRIVED AT APPROXIMATELY 20:25 AND BEGAN APPLYING FOAM TO THE FIRE. BY 20:54 THE FIRE WAS STILL BURNING BUT CONTAINED. OPERATIONS CALLED AT 22:20 ON 12/27/2013 NOTING THAT THE FIRE WAS OUT EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE HOT SPOTS. AN INVESTIGATION BEEN DONE TO DETERMINE WHAT CAUSED THE FIRE, BUT BECAUSE OF THE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE COULD NOT BE DETERMINED. THE FIRE DESTROYED THE AUXILIARY ROOM. THE ENGINE, WHICH IS SEPERATED BY A FIREWALL FROM THE AUXILARY ROM, WAS NOT DAMAGED BY THE FIRE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — UNKNOWN.

PHMSA indexed costs: $2,667,713 reported total cost, $1,380,025.746 in 1984 dollars, $3,397,921.008 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.