# GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-07-18

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20130076
- **title:** GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-07-18
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2013-08-09
- **effective on:** 2013-07-18
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in CLARENCE, NATCHITOCHES County, LA. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 NATURAL GAS released, $80,460 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.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in CLARENCE, NATCHITOCHES County, LA. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 NATURAL GAS released, $80,460 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: 20130076.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 7/18/2013 16:15.

Location detail: 368.83

Cause detail: ORIGINAL MANUFACTURING-RELATED (NOT GIRTH WELD OR OTHER WELDS FORMED IN THE FIELD)

Cause detail: GAS LEAK AT SITE OF PREVIOUS HARD SPOT SLEEVE REPAIR AREA ON THE WEST 30-INCH SUCTION LINE (INDEX 129) INSIDE CLARENCE STATION YARD. REPAIR WAS MADE USING A TYPE B SLEEVE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — MANUFACTURING-RELATED.

PHMSA indexed costs: $91,936 reported total cost, $50,905.672 in 1984 dollars, $113,894.566 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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