KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2021-06-24

Current as of 2021-06-24 Government source

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety AdministrationOfficial agency material

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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 25 NATURAL GAS released, $5,000 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: 20210055.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 6/24/2021 16:15.

Cause detail: ROUTINE OR NORMAL FISHING OR OTHER MARITIME ACTIVITY NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION

Cause detail: NOTIFIED BY USCG ON 6/25/2021. LEAK CONFIRMED BY HELICOPTER OVERFLIGHT ON 6/26/2021. DIVE VESSEL DISPATCHED ON 6/26/2021. DIVERS FOUND A CRACKED 1/2" TUBING ON A 12" SUBSEA VALVE OPERATOR. CLOSED ISOLATION VALVE TO STOP LEAK. ASSUMED TO BE CAUSED BY OUTSIDE FORCES.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — FISHING OR MARITIME ACTIVITY.

PHMSA indexed costs: $80,100 reported total cost, $35,953.529 in 1984 dollars, $88,461.452 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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