SEA ROBIN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2004-02-27

Gas transmission and gathering incident in N/A, N/A County. Reported cause: 2. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $250,000 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: 20040028.

Operator ID: 18152.

Reported incident date: 2/27/2004.

Cause detail: CORROSION, INTERNAL

Cause detail: SUBJECT LEAK WAS DISCOVERED ON FEBRUARY 27, 2004 @ 2:30 P.M. THE PIPELINE WAS IMMEDIATELY SHUT IN AND INVESTIGATION AND REPAIR INITIATED. THE CAUSE OF THE LEAK WAS DETERMINED TO BE TWO PINHOLE LEAKS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE PIPE CAUSED BY INTERNAL CORROSION. A LEAK CLAMP WAS INSTALLED TO REPAIR THE ANOMALY. THE LINE WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE ON MARCH 14, 2004. THE PIPELINE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY CLEANED AND BATCH-TREATED WITH BIOCIDES TO PREVENT ADDITIONAL CORROSION.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $250,000 reported total cost, $155,476.473 in 1984 dollars, $381,394.406 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.