ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-06-13

Gas transmission and gathering incident in TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0 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.

Report number: 20120070.

Operator ID: 31618.

Reported incident date: 6/13/2012 13:00.

Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE

Cause detail: 1 PM NOTIFIED BY GAS CONTROL POSSIBLE LEAK ON "TOMCAT PLATFORM". DETERMINED THAT ST135 WAS PROBABLE SITE FROM DIRECTIONS. DISPACHED ENTERPRISE EMPLOYEE WORKING AT MI622 TO SCENE BY HELICOPTER. EMPLOYEE DETERMINED WE HAD A CONDENSATE SPILL OF 10-15 GALLONS FROM PIG LAUNCHER ON PLATFORM. LAUNCHER WAS ISOLATED AND BLOWNDOWN AT 1:40 PM. GLO AND COAST GUARD ADVISED NO CLEAN-UP OR USE OF DISPERSANT, LET FILM EVAPORATE. NO RECOVERY, ESTIMATED LOSS AT 10-15 GALLONS OF CONDENSATE. RELEASE WAS DUE TO A FAILED O-RING ON THE PIG TRAP. O-RING WAS REPLACED. THIS IS AN INTERSTATE GATHERING LINE. THERE IS NO HCA OR PIR ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PIPELINE. I ENTERED 1 BECAUSE 0 IS NOT EXCEPTED.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $2,000 reported total cost, $1,053.4 in 1984 dollars, $2,594.2 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.