# BLACK MARLIN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-04-11

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20140047
- **title:** BLACK MARLIN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-04-11
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2014-05-06
- **effective on:** 2014-04-11
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 47 NATURAL GAS released, $160,000 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: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 47 NATURAL GAS released, $160,000 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: 20140047.

Operator ID: 1472.

Reported incident date: 4/11/2014 9:15.

Cause detail: FAILURE OF EQUIPMENT BODY (EXCEPT COMPRESSOR), VESSEL PLATE, OR OTHER MATERIAL

Cause detail: WHILE CLOSING THIS VALVE FOR UPSTREAM MAINTENANCE, A CORRODED BODY DRAIN FAILED WHEN PRESSURE WAS INTRODUCED TO THE VALVE BODY THAT HAD BLED OFF.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — FAILURE OF EQUIPMENT BODY.

PHMSA indexed costs: $169,500 reported total cost, $87,758.702 in 1984 dollars, $208,007.52 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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