KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-06-15

Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, CAMERON County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2 NATURAL GAS released, $125,000 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: 20150094.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 6/15/2015 18:00.

Location detail: 507A-1001

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: A FISH AND WILDLIFE RANGER AT THE ROCKEFELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE IDENTIFIED TINY GAS BUBBLES IN A POND LOCATED ON THE REFUGE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO MULTIPLE PIPELINES. AFTER BEING CONTACTED WE TRAVELED TO THE LOCATION TO VERIFY COORDINATES AND ON SCENE CONDITIONS. A SHUT IN OF PRODUCTION AT EAST CAMERON 33 CF WAS REQUESTED SO THAT PIPELINE CONDITIONS COULD BE MONITORED TO VERIFY SOURCE OF LEAK AT THE 507A-1000. AFTER PRODUCTION WAS SHUT IN AND THE LINE TOTALLY ISOLATED, WE WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE IT WAS THE KINETICA LINE. MOBILE COMPRESSION WAS BROUGHT TO THE LOCATION FOR THE PUMP DOWN OF THE PIPELINE. A REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED AND THE PIPELINE WAS REPRESSURIZED.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $128,010 reported total cost, $64,222.626 in 1984 dollars, $158,149.112 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.