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PHMSA Report 20160058
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, LP (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-06-09
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1676 NATURAL GAS released, $916,400 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: 20160058.
Operator ID: 19235.
Reported incident date: 6/9/2016 12:30.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: BUBBLES ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AT WEST CAMERON BLOCK 480 WERE OBSERVED BY A BSSE EMPLOYEE FLYING IN A HELICOPTER ON JUNE 9, 2016 AT 12:30 PM. TEXAS EASTERN PERSONNEL CONFIRMED THE DISCOVERY WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A TEXAS EASTERN PIPELINE ON JUNE 9, 2016 AT 12:53 PM. THE PIPELINE SEGMENT WAS SHUT IN. A DIVE BOAT WAS DISPATCHED TO THE LOCATION WHERE THE BUBBLES WERE OBSERVED. DIVERS CONFIRMED THE LEAK WAS COMING FROM A PIN HOLE LEAK DUE TO INTERNAL CORROSION IN TEXAS EASTERN 16-INCH LINE 41-A-8. A LEAK CLAMP WAS INSTALLED AND THE PIPELINE WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE JULY 5, 2016.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $939,026 reported total cost, $480,038.93 in 1984 dollars, $1,152,441.15 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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