# SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-05-19

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20140067
- **title:** SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-05-19
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2014-06-17
- **effective on:** 2014-05-19
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, NOBLE COUNTY County, OK. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 NATURAL GAS released, $151,000 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, NOBLE COUNTY County, OK. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 NATURAL GAS released, $151,000 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: 20140067.

Operator ID: 31711.

Reported incident date: 5/19/2014 16:45.

Location detail: 210/-2972+86

Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: SSCGP GAS CONTROL RECEIVED A CALL FROM A THIRD PARTY AT 18:48 ON 5/17/2014 STATING THERE WAS AN OIL PATCH WITH AN AUDIBLE LEAK AND A SECOND NOTIFICATION FROM A LAND OWNER AT 19:11. ON-CALL PERSONAL WERE CONTACTED AND EDMOND OPERATIONS WERE ABLE TO BE NOTIFIED BY 17:23. AT 22:21 OPERATIONS NOTIFIED THAT THERE WAS NOT BLOWING GAS BUT A LEAK COULD BE DETECTED OVER AN OILY PATCH. SSCGP LINE IS ADJACENT TO AN OIL LINE WITH AN UNKNOWN OPERATOR. THE SITE WAS CONSIDERED WAS AWAY FROM ALL ROADS AND HOUSES AND UNTIL THE OIL LINE OPERATOR COULD BE CONTACTED SSCGP PERSONNEL DECIDED TO WAIT TO EXCAVATE THE LINE. ON 5/18/2014 A PRESSURE REDUCTION OF 20% WAS PUT IN PLACE WHILE AN OPERATOR FOR THE OIL LINE WAS TRACKED DOWN TO HELP WITH CONTAINMENT OF THE OIL. AFTER NO OPERATOR COULD BE FOUND, SSCGP BEGAN EXCAVATION ON 5/19/2014. AS EXCAVATION BEGAN IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE OIL MAY HAVE BEEN FROM THE SSCGP LINE AND IT WAS DECIDED TO BLOW-DOWN THE LINE SO A PERMANENT REPAIR OF THE LEAK AND OIL CLEAN UP COULD BE DONE. GAS FLOW WAS DETERMINED TO BE SHUT IN ON 5/20/14 AT 11:28 AM.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $220,821 reported total cost, $117,177.396 in 1984 dollars, $264,806.423 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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