# KINDER MORGAN TEJAS PIPELINE — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-07-18

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20160064
- **title:** KINDER MORGAN TEJAS PIPELINE — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-07-18
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2016-08-16
- **effective on:** 2016-07-18
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, KLEBERG County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 142450 NATURAL GAS released, $13,461,000 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 in Not Within a Municipality, KLEBERG County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 142450 NATURAL GAS released, $13,461,000 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: 20160064.

Operator ID: 4900.

Reported incident date: 7/18/2016 9:20.

Location detail: MP 0 - 0+00

Cause detail: NEARBY INDUSTRIAL, MAN-MADE, OR OTHER FIRE/EXPLOSION AS PRIMARY CAUSE OF INCIDENT

Cause detail: 07/18/2016; 09:20 HOURS; KM TEJAS MANAGER REPORTED FIRE OBSERVED IN THE DISTANCE, APPROXIMATELY IN THE VICINITY OF THE KM TEJAS KING RANCH FACILITIES. SAID SITE IS A JUNCTION FOR KM TEJAS FACILITIES AND FACILITIES OF AN ADJACENT THIRD PARTY. KM TEJAS EMERGENCY RESPONSE BEGAN AT 09:26 HOURS INCLUDING DIRECTING EMPLOYEES TO CLOSE MAIN LINE BLOCK VALVES AND ISOLATING ALL INLETS AND OUTLETS. THE KM TEJAS INVOLVEMENT INCLUDED MULTIPLE PIPELINES; THE LARGEST DIAMETER KM TEJAS PIPELINE IS THE 36-INCH TEJAS 520-100 LINE (MUSTANG MAIN LINE 01; SAID PIPE DATA FOR THIS REPORT). INCIDENT BEGAN WITHIN THE FACILITIES OF AN ADJACENT THIRD PARTY; HEAT FROM FIRE SPREAD TO KM TEJAS FACILITIES. THE GAS LOST AND OTHER APPLICABLE DATA WITHIN THIS REPORT IS CUMULATIVE FOR ALL KM TEJAS INVOLVED FACILITIES. THE THIRD PARTY FACILITY PERSONNEL WERE EVACUATED; THERE WERE NO GENERAL PUBLIC EVACUATIONS. THE KM TEJAS FACILITY IS NOT MANNED; THERE WERE NO PERSONNEL EVACUATION. IT WAS SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE THE INCIDENT SITE WAS DEEMED SAFE FOR KM TEJAS EMPLOYEES TO ENTER AND BEGIN AN INVESTIGATION. INVOLVED KM TEJAS FACILITIES WERE RESTORED TO RESUME NATURAL GAS FLOW (SOUTH FLOW) ON 07/31/2016. ADDITIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF DAMAGED KM TEJAS FACILITIES CONTINUED INTO THE WEEK OF 08/28/2017 WITH THE INSTALLATION OF VALVE OPERATORS TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT WITH NATURAL GAS FLOW AS NEEDED.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — FIRE/EXPLOSION AS PRIMARY CAUSE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $13,842,000 reported total cost, $7,102,518.541 in 1984 dollars, $16,991,721.289 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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