{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20130055","title":"CROSSTEX LIG, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-05-22","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2013-06-21","effective_on":"2013-05-22","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in MORGAN CITY, ST MARY County, LA. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 23 NATURAL GAS released, $311,000 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.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-a08f0088d301234505123259.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-a08f0088d301234505123259.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-a08f0088d301234505123259","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 MORGAN CITY, ST MARY County, LA. Reported cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 23 NATURAL GAS released, $311,000 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.\n\nReport number: 20130055.\n\nOperator ID: 32005.\n\nReported incident date: 5/22/2013 8:34.\n\nCause detail: ROUTINE OR NORMAL FISHING OR OTHER MARITIME ACTIVITY NOT ENGAGED IN EXCAVATION\n\nCause detail: CROSSTEX WAS NOTIFIED BY THE COAST GUARD THAT BUBBLES WERE SEEN AT THE SURFACE OF THE WATER OF THE INTRACOASTAL CANNAL AND THAT THE BUBBLES MAY BE COMING FROM OUR PIPELINE. CROSSTEX STARTED AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF THE LEAK BELONGED TO CROSSTEX. ONCE CROSSTEX DETERMINED IT WAS A CROSSTEX PIPELINE LEAK WE ATTEMPTED TO PLACE ON CLAMP ON THE LEAK WITH DIVERS. THAT ATTEMPT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL AND WAS NOT FEASIBLE DUE TO EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE TO THE PIPELINE. CROSSTEX THEN TOOK THE PIPELINE OUT OF SERVICE. WE ARE NOW EVALUATING THE BEST WAY TO MAKE REPAIRS THAT WOULD HAVE LEST IMPACT TO THE PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENT AND THE END USER. PIPELINE WAS REPAIRED BUT REPLACING 484.6 FEET OF PIPELINE WITH LIKE KIND MATERIAL AND RETURNED PIPELINE TO SERVICE.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: OTHER OUTSIDE FORCE DAMAGE — FISHING OR MARITIME ACTIVITY.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $311,120 reported total cost, $160,957.094 in 1984 dollars, $396,267.843 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":1792}