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PHMSA Report 20120096
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION LP (SPECTRA ENERGY CORP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-09-06
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 14750 NATURAL GAS released, $600,000 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: 20120096.
Operator ID: 19235.
Reported incident date: 9/6/2012 17:00.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: INDICATIONS OF BUBBLES ON THE WATER SURFACE IN WEST CAMERON BLOCK 549 WERE REPORTED BY A PLATFORM OPERATOR ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2012. THE LEAK WAS CAUSED BY A PINHOLE RESULTING FROM INTERNAL CORROSION. A LEAK CLAMP WAS INSTALLED FOR PERMANENT REPAIR.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $673,200 reported total cost, $377,148.964 in 1984 dollars, $853,317.082 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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