# SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-12-26

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20140010
- **title:** SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-12-26
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2014-01-20
- **effective on:** 2013-12-26
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in PERRY, NOBLE County, OK. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 20073 NATURAL GAS released, $15,772 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 in PERRY, NOBLE County, OK. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 20073 NATURAL GAS released, $15,772 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: 20140010.

Operator ID: 31711.

Reported incident date: 12/26/2013 21:00.

Location detail: 220/-2286+68

Cause detail: THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE

Cause detail: SSCGP RECEIVED A CALL AT 5:50 PM ON 12/26/2013 FROM LOCAL RESIDENT ABOUT GAS BLOWING FROM A PIPE NEAR PERRY, OK IN NOBLE COUNTY. GAS CONTROL CONTACTED OPERATIONS AND NARROWED THE ADDRESS TO THE PERRY STATION. OPERATIONS ARRIVED ON SCENE AT 6:42 PM ON 12/26/2013, CONFIRMING THE LEAK BUT WAS UNABLE TO CONFIRM WHETHER IT WAS A SSCGP LINE OR MUSTANG GAS FACILITY; CONTACT WAS MADE WITH MUSTANG AND SSCGP WAITED FOR THEIR OPERATIONS FOR HELP WITH CONFIRMATION. AT 8:45 PM ON 12/26/2013 CUSTOMERS WERE NOTIFIED AND SSCGP BEGAN TO LOWER GAS FLOW FOR A SHUT IN. AT 9:00 PM THE LEAK WAS VERIFIED TO BE A SSCGP FACILITY AND AT 9:17 PM ON 12/26/13 THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED. THE SEGMENT WAS COMPLETELY SHUT IN AT 10:00 PM ON 12/26/2013. ALL WORK TO INSTALL A HOUSING OVER THE LEAKING COUPLING WAS COMPLETED AND LINE RETURNED TO NORMAL SERVICE AT 8:14 PM ON 12/27/2013.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $105,334 reported total cost, $80,651.656 in 1984 dollars, $109,101.624 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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