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PHMSA Report 20130103
ENBRIDGE OFFSHORE (GAS TRANSMISSION) LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2011-08-28
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1100 NATURAL GAS released, $70,074 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: 20130103.
Operator ID: 18646.
Reported incident date: 8/28/2011 14:00.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: A LEAK WAS DETECTED BY AN ENBRIDGE OPERATOR 8-28-2011 WHILE FLYING OVER THE AREA. THE OPERATOR OF THE PLATFORM THAT TIES INTO THE LINE WAS CONTACTED AND THE OPERTOR WAS ABLE TO FLY TO THE PLATFORM AND SHUT OFF THE FLOW TO THE PIPELINE (ISOLATING THE LINE AT THE SOURCE) ON 8-29-2011. A DIVE BOAT ARRIVED ON LOCATION AND ISOLATED THE PIPELINE BY CLOSING A SUBSEA VALVE AT WC 144 ON 8-30-2011.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $194,074 reported total cost, $124,582.721 in 1984 dollars, $199,379.652 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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