# ENERGY TRANSFER COMPANY — Type R reporting-regulated gas gathering — incident on 2025-05-28

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20250022
- **title:** ENERGY TRANSFER COMPANY — Type R reporting-regulated gas gathering — incident on 2025-05-28
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2025-08-28
- **effective on:** 2025-05-28
- **summary:** Type R reporting-regulated gas gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, REAGAN County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 39 NATURAL GAS released, $1,825,959 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.
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Type R reporting-regulated gas gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, REAGAN County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 39 NATURAL GAS released, $1,825,959 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: 20250022.

Operator ID: 32099.

Reported incident date: 5/28/2025 20:02.

Cause detail: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE

Cause detail: ON MAY 28, 2025, AT 8:02 P.M. AN ON-CALL PIPELINE TECH RECEIVED AN ALARM LOLO COMPRESSOR OIL INDICATING THAT THE COMPRESSOR, GARRISON DRAW UNIT 5 # 2777 USA COMPRESSOR WAS SHUT DOWN. AT 8:27 P.M. WHILE ENROUTE TO THE COMPRESSOR STATION THE TECH WITNESSED A FIRE THAT WAS POSSIBLY LOCATED AT THE GARRISON DRAW COMPRESSOR STATION. THE TECH THEN NOTIFIED THE OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR. THE OPERATION'S TECH THEN BEGAN SHUTTING IN METER RUN VALVES SUPPLYING NATURAL GAS TO THE COMPRESSOR STATION. AT 8:40 P.M. THE PIPELINE TECH ARRIVED AT THE COMPRESSOR STATION AND CONFIRMED THE FIRE WAS ON ETC'S GARRISON DRAW UNIT 5. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS ALREADY ON SCENE AT THAT TIME. THE PIPELINE TECH THEN COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN GARRISON DRAW COMPRESSOR STATION AND ISOLATED UNIT 5. THE FIRE WAS OUT AT 9:30 P.M. ON MAY 29, 2025, THE STATION WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE WITHOUT UNIT 5 AT 2:40 A.M. NOTIFICATIONS WERE MADE TO NATIONAL REPORTING CENTER AND RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS. THE INVESTIGATION REPORT CONCLUDED THAT A 3RD PARTY PRODUCTION COMPANY'S POLY FLOWLINE THAT RUNS ALONGSIDE THE COMPRESSOR STATION RUPTURED RESULTING IN HYDROCARBONS REACHING THE COMPRESSOR CAUSING THE UNIT TO CATCH FIRE. TO PREVENT REOCCURRENCE, THE 3RD PARTY PRODUCTION COMPANY HAS BURIED THEIR POLY FLOWLINE THAT PREVIOUS WAS ABOVE GROUND ALONGSIDE ETC'S COMPRESSOR STATION.
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