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PHMSA Report 20010102
WILLIAMS FIELD SERVICES — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2001-04-27
Current as of 2001-04-27 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in EUNICE, ACADIA County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $450,000 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: 20010102.
Operator ID: 30826.
Reported incident date: 20010427.
Location detail: INTERNALLY
Location detail: LOCALIZED PITTING
Cause detail: AIR PATROL NOTICED BUBBLES IN A FLOWING CREEK. STATE & FEDERAL AGENCIES WERE NOTIFIED. A AFFECTED SEGMENT OF PIPELINE WAS ISOLATED AND BLOWN DOWN. REPAIRS OR OTHER MEASURES WILL OCCUR IN THE NEAR FUTURE. A SUPPLEMENTAL FF7100.2 REPORT WILL BE SUBMITTED WHEN FUTURE ACTIONS ARE COMPLETED. 406.5 FEET OF PIPE WAS REPLACED, COMPLETE 8/31/01
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $450,000 reported total cost, $296,899.662 in 1984 dollars, $731,172.492 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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