ENLINK LIG, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-03-13

Gas transmission and gathering incident in OPELOUSAS, ST LANDRY County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 7425 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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: 20140037.

Operator ID: 32005.

Reported incident date: 3/13/2014 14:15.

Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: THE ENLINK OPELOUSAS 8" PIPELINE (PIPELINE #1164) ON MARCH 13, 2014 HAD TOTALLY SEPARATED. EMERGENCY RESPONDERS REPORTED A GAS RELEASE TO OUR GAS CONTROL CENTER IN PINEVILLE LA. ONCE THE CALL WAS RECEIVED AT OUR GAS CONTROL THEY CALLED FIELD PERSONNEL TO EVALUATE AND BEGAN ISOLATING THE PIPELINE. ONCE THE PIPELINE WAS ISOLATED AND EVALUATED THAT NO ONE WAS HURT OR INJURED; OPERATIONS BEGAN TO REPLACE THE SEPARATED SECTION WITH NEW PIPE. THE PIPELINE WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE AT 0144 HRS. THE MORNING OF THE 14TH AT SIGNIFICANT LOWER PRESSURE TO RESTORE THE DISTRIBUTION SUPPLIER WITH NEEDED GAS TO THEIR CUSTOMERS. ENLINK EVALUATED WHETHER OR NOT THE EXISTING MAOP OF 800 PSI WAS JUSTIFIED. ONCE THE EVALUATION WAS COMPLETED THE PIPELINES MAOP WAS REDUCED TO 347. THE PIPELINE NOW HAS AN ESTABLISHED MAOP AT LESS THAN 30% SMYS.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $101,835 reported total cost, $57,702.114 in 1984 dollars, $114,165.063 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.