VOYAGEUR PIPELINE LLP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2002-02-20

Current as of 2002-02-20 Government source

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety AdministrationOfficial agency material

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Gas transmission and gathering incident in LONGVIEW, GREGG County, TX. Reported cause: 2. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $45,000 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: 20020047.

Operator ID: 31547.

Reported incident date: 2/20/2002.

Cause detail: CORROSION, INTERNAL

Cause detail: APPARENT CORROSION IN BOTTOM OF PIPING CAUSING TWO HOLES IN PIPE. ONE HOLE APPROXIMATELY 3/8" IN DIAMETER, SECOND HOLE APPROXIMATELY 1/4" TO 3/8" LONG. HOLES WERE APPROXIMATELY 18" APART. BAKER CHEMICALS ANALYZED SECTION OF PIPE INDICATING CORROSION WAS BACTERIAL IN ORIGIN.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $45,000 reported total cost, $0 in 1984 dollars, $0 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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