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PHMSA Report 20120083
GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-07-12
Current as of 2012-07-12 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in NEAR ARNAUDVILLE, ST MARTIN County, LA. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 NATURAL GAS released, $84,500 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: 20120083.
Operator ID: 31728.
Reported incident date: 7/12/2012 10:20.
Location detail: 38.18
Cause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED
Cause detail: CRACK IN THE 2" PIPE NEAR A WELD ATTACHING A SADDLE TO THE PIPE. THE 2' IS A BYPASS AROUND A 36" MAINLINE VALVE. INCIDENT INITIALLY WAS NOT THOUGHT TO EXCEED THE $50,000 THRESHOLD FOR REPORTING.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED.
PHMSA indexed costs: $199,300 reported total cost, $128,656.057 in 1984 dollars, $237,643.164 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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