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PHMSA Report 20150101
ATMOS PIPELINE - TEXAS — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-07-02
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in BRYAN, BRAZOS County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3700 NATURAL GAS released, $950,000 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: 20150101.
Operator ID: 31978.
Reported incident date: 7/2/2015 21:45.
Location detail: 61336
Cause detail: UNKNOWN
Cause detail: MIC TECH RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE COMPANY GAS CONTROL NOTIFYING US OF PRESSURE PROBLEMS ON JULY 2, 2015. AFTER FURTHER INVESTIGATION IT WAS DETERMINED THAT DURING NORMAL OPERATIONS THE PIPELINE L8-9 AS IT CROSSES THE BRAZOS RIVER ON HWY 21 HAD DEVELOPED A LEAK. THE LINE WAS SHUT IN TO ELIMINATE THE LEAK AND ACTIONS TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM WERE STARTED IMMEDIATELY. A NEW LINE WAS BORED UNDERNEATH THE RIVER AND WAS PLACED IN SERVICE ON JULY 17, 2015. THE EXISTING LINE WAS ABANDONED AND LEFT IN PLACE.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — UNKNOWN.
PHMSA indexed costs: $1,100,000 reported total cost, $615,667.991 in 1984 dollars, $1,344,453.093 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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