KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-02-03

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 500 NATURAL GAS released, $75,000 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: 20160018.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 2/3/2016 9:30.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON 2/3/16, HELICOPTER OVERFLIGHT BY OPERATOR PERSONNEL RESULTED IN A LEAK BEING IDENTIFIED ON THE KINETICA 523M-1100 PIPELINE IN SHIP SHOAL BLOCK 198. COORDINATES WERE REPORTED AND PLOTTED. LEAK PLOTTED APPROXIMATELY 500' SSW OF KINETICA PIPELINE. LINE WAS IMMEDIATELY ISOLATED BY OPERATOR PERSONNEL AT THE PRODUCER PLATFORM. DUE TO ROUGH SEAS, OPERATOR WAS UNABLE TO DISPATCH DIVE VESSEL TO CLOSE SSTI VALVE. CHECK VALVE AT SSTI. ON 2/5/15, DIVE VESSEL ARRIVED AT LOCATION TO CLOSE SSTI VALVE. ON 2/6/16, DIVE VESSEL LOCATED AND CLOSED VALVE AT SSTI TO TOTALLY ISOLATE PIPELINE. DIVE VESSEL EXCAVATED LEAK LOCATION AND IDENTIFIED A PINHOLE LEAK AT THE 6:00 POSITION. DUE TO NO FLOW ON PIPELINE AND NO FUTURE PLANS FOR FLOW ON SAID LINE, IN LIEU OF MAKING REPAIRS, KINETICA MADE THE DCISION TO START THE PROCESS TO ABANDON THE PIPELINE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $81,125 reported total cost, $41,001.29 in 1984 dollars, $99,494.492 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.