{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20140023","title":"ENBRIDGE PIPELINES (EAST TEXAS) L.P. — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-01-26","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2014-02-25","effective_on":"2014-01-26","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in GOODRICH, POLK County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 78042 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-b931830cf324903ce3cc3679.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-b931830cf324903ce3cc3679.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-b931830cf324903ce3cc3679","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in GOODRICH, POLK County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 78042 NATURAL GAS released, $0 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.\n\nReport number: 20140023.\n\nOperator ID: 31613.\n\nReported incident date: 1/26/2014 8:45.\n\nCause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT\n\nCause detail: AT 8:45 THE CONTROL CENTER NOTIFIED OPERATIONS THAT A PRESSURE DROP WAS INDICATED ON THE DD AND CLARITY SYSTEM. OPERATIONS WAS DISPACHED AND ARRIVED AT THE GOODRICH COMPRESSOR STATION AT 09:15. OPERATIONS FOUND THE COMPRESSOR STATION HAD EXPERIENCED A POWER FAILURE CAUSING AN ESD OF THE STATION. A 20\" SUCTION VALVE FAILED TO CLOSE DURING THE ESD ALLOWING ADDITIONAL GAS TO BE BLOWN DOWN. THE VALVE WAS MANUALLY SHUT AT 09:35 AND PRESSURE BEGAN TO INCREASE TO NORMAL OPERATING PRESSURE. REPORTED DUE TO UNINTENIONAL GAS LOSS EXCEEDING THE 3 MMCF LIMIT AND THE COST OF GAS LOSS EXCEEDING $50,000.\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $390,210 reported total cost, $269,935.114 in 1984 dollars, $331,439.317 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":1582}