{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20120057","title":"GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-05-01","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2012-05-31","effective_on":"2012-05-01","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in MONTPELIER, ST. HELENA County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 12514 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. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-91476af078c464c7c673ccb3.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-91476af078c464c7c673ccb3.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-91476af078c464c7c673ccb3","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in MONTPELIER, ST. HELENA County, LA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 12514 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.\n\nReport number: 20120057.\n\nOperator ID: 31728.\n\nReported incident date: 5/1/2012 3:08.\n\nCause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT\n\nCause detail: GAS CONTROL RECEIVED A CALL FROM LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTING A SOUND THOUGHT TO BE GAS BLOWING. GAS CONTROL NOTIFIED ON-CALL OPERATOR AND AREA MANAGER. UPON ARRIVAL, OPERATOR IDENTIFIED A RELIEF VALVE BLOWING. OPERATOR CLOSED THE ISOLATION VALVE. AFTER INVESTIGATING, RELIEF VALVE SENSING LINE WAS FOUND TO BE THE CAUSE OF THE RELIEF VALVE ACTIVATING. THE SENSING LINE WAS REPAIRED AND TESTED FOR LEAKS. THE RELIEF VALVE WAS TESTED AND PLACED BACK IN SERVICE. REVISED TO INCLUDE ANSWER TO E.5F PER PHMSA REQUEST.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $12,664 reported total cost, $10,575.645 in 1984 dollars, $12,985.285 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1503}