# KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-11-09

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20150141
- **title:** KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-11-09
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2015-12-01
- **effective on:** 2015-11-09
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 450 NATURAL GAS released, $125,000 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 450 NATURAL GAS released, $125,000 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: 20150141.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 11/9/2015 16:58.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: OVERFLIGHT OF THE AREA BY BSEE INSPECTOR IDENTIFIED A LEAK IN THE VICINITY OF KINETICA'S 523M-2900 PIPELINE. IT WAS TOO LATE TO FLY TO THE LOCATION, SO KINETICA PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED THE NEXT AM TO ISOLATE THE PIPELINE. AT 11:00 AM, PRODUCTION WAS SHUT-IN AND PLATFORM VALVE CLOSED TO ISOLATE THE PIPELINE. DIVE VESSEL WAS PROCURED AND ARRIVED ON SITE ON 11/12 TO CLOSE SUB-SEA VALVE. WEATHER (ROUGH SEAS) PROHIBITED THE REPAIR UNTIL 11/30. UPON HAVING CALMER WEATHER, DIVE VESSEL WAS DISPATCHED TO LOCATION. DIVER EXCAVATED LEAK AREA AND PREPARED PIPELINE FOR INSTALLATION OF REPAIR CLAMP. DIVER IDENTIFIED A SMALL PINHOLE LEAK AT THE 6:00 POSITION. REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED. DIVER OPENED SUB-SEA VALVE. KINETICA PERSONNEL OPENED PLATFORM VALVE TO ALLOW PRODUCTION TO COMMENCE. AREA WAS MONITORED BY DIVE VESSEL AS PRESSURE INCREASED TO NORMAL OPERATING PRESSURE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $130,900 reported total cost, $66,051.194 in 1984 dollars, $161,633.277 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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