ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-07-13

Gas transmission and gathering incident in TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 released, $500 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: 20120078.

Operator ID: 31618.

Reported incident date: 7/13/2012 10:10.

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: AN ENTERPRISE TECHNICIAN WAS PERFORMING A PLATFORM CHECK AT MI558 PLATFORM ON ASSOCIATED WITH PIPELINE X1-400 TOMCAT. DURING HIS INSPECTION THE TECHNICIAN NOTICED A SMALL SHEEN ON THE WATER. THE TECHNICIAN FOUND THAT A SUPPLY GAS REGULATOR ON A LEVEL CONTROLLER HAD A SMALL LEAK THAT WAS CAUSING CONDENSATE TO SLOWLY DRIP INTO THE WATER. THE TECHNICIAN WAS AT THE PLATFORM THE DAY BEFORE AND DID NOT NOTICE ANY TYPE OF SHEEN. THE TECHNICIAN REMOVED THE REGULATOR AND PLUGGED THE SUPPY LINE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $500 reported total cost, $263.35 in 1984 dollars, $648.55 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.