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PHMSA Report 20010001
TRANS - COLORADO PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2000-11-20
Current as of 2000-11-20 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in MONTROSE, MONTROSE County, CO. Reported cause: OTHER. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $92,000 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: 20010001.
Operator ID: 19580.
Reported incident date: 20001120.
Cause detail: THERE WAS A FALSE EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN AT THE OLATHE COMPRESSOR STATION DUE TO FAILURE OF THE CONTROL PANEL. IN ADDITION, THE CONTROL PANEL ONLY SENT A PARTIAL ESD SIGNAL, LEAVING THE COMPRESSOR INLET VALVE OPEN, UNDETECTED, FOR ABOUT 5 HOURS. THIS ALLOWED VENTING OF PIPELINE GAS TO ATMOSPHERE. NOTICE OF SITUATION WAS RECEIVED FROM A PRIVATE PARTY AND SUBSEQUENTLY CORRECTED.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.
PHMSA indexed costs: $92,000 reported total cost, $62,171.414 in 1984 dollars, $153,109.058 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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