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PHMSA Report 20130042
CYPRESS GAS PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-04-24
Current as of 2013-04-24 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in KROTZ SPRINGS, ST. LANDRY County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 16 NATURAL GAS released, $60,471 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: 20130042.
Operator ID: 12696.
Reported incident date: 4/24/2013 18:55.
Location detail: 2534+40
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: CYPRESS GAS PIPELINE BRW #1 MAIN LINE LEAK; A PIPELINE TECHNICIAN DISCOVERED BUBBLES IN A PUDDLE OF WATER COMING FROM AN UNDERGROUND PIPELINE VALVE SITE IN SOUTH LOUISIANA. CYPRESS GAS PIPELINE PERSONNEL SHUT IN THE PIPELINE SEGMENT AND COMPRESSED OUT THE REMAINING NATURAL GAS. REPAIR WORK CONSISTED OF REPLACING A 23 FOOT SECTION OF PIPELINE WITH PRETESTED PIPE, X-RAYING WELDS, AND LEAK TESTING PIPELINE SECTION TO 590 PSI. NO ISSUES WERE FOUND, PIPELINE WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $61,064 reported total cost, $31,757.684 in 1984 dollars, $77,616.688 in current-year dollars.
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