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PHMSA Report 20160041
EAST TENNESSEE NATURAL GAS, LLC (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-04-28
Current as of 2016-04-28 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, MAURY County, TN. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4639 NATURAL GAS released, $1,000 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: 20160041.
Operator ID: 4070.
Reported incident date: 4/28/2016 21:50.
Location detail: 6.38
Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT
Cause detail: AT 9:50 PM ON APRIL 28, 2016 A REGULATOR DIAPHRAGM AT THE EAST TENNESSEE NATURAL GAS MT. PLEASANT REDUCING STATION IN MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE DEVELOPED A TEAR WHICH CAUSED THE DOWNSTREAM PRESSURE TO INCREASE ABOVE THE RELIEF VALVE SET POINT PRESSURE RESULTING IN A RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS. APPROXIMATELY 100 PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED FROM THE VICINITY BY EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICIALS AS A PRECAUTION. SPECTRA ENERGY PERSONNEL SUBSEQUENTLY ISOLATED THE FACILITIES HALTING THE NATURAL GAS DISCHARGE.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $10,278 reported total cost, $10,375.738 in 1984 dollars, $13,354.219 in current-year dollars.
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