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PHMSA Report 20160079
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, LP (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-09-08
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 571 NATURAL GAS released, $1,200,000 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: 20160079.
Operator ID: 19235.
Reported incident date: 9/8/2016 10:38.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: SURFACE BUBBLES WERE DISCOVERED IN EAST CAMERON BLOCK 293 AT 10:38 AM, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 BY A THIRD PARTY FLYING IN A HELICOPTER. SPECTRA ENERGY CONFIRMED THE DISCOVERY AS BEING ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OF THEIR TEAS EASTERN PIPELINES AT 2:30 PM, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016. SPECTRA ENERGY DETERMINED THE LEAK WAS COMING FROM 16-INCH TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION L.P. LINE 41-A-5 NATURAL GAS PIPELINE. THE PIPELINE SEGMENT WAS SHUT IN AT 4:05 PM, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016. AT 8:45 AM, SEPTEMBER 10, 2016 A LIGHT SHEEN DUE TO LESS THAN ONE GALLON OF CONDENSATE RELEASE WAS OBSERVED BY HELICOPTER AT THE SITE. THE APPARENT CAUSE OF THE INCIDENT WAS INTERNAL CORROSION. THE PIPELINE WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE NOVEMBER 29, 2016.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $1,449,717 reported total cost, $862,923.911 in 1984 dollars, $1,796,806.523 in current-year dollars.
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