TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION LP (SPECTRA ENERGY CORP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-08-13

Current as of 2012-08-13 Government source

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety AdministrationOfficial agency material

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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 400 NATURAL GAS released, $600,000 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: 20120091.

Operator ID: 19235.

Reported incident date: 8/13/2012 8:15.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: INDICATIONS OF BUBBLES ON THE WATER SURFACE IN WEST CAMERON 549 WERE REPORTED BY A PLATFORM OPERATOR ON AUGUST 13, 2012. UPON INVESTIGATION IT WAS DETERMINED THE LEAK WAS CAUSED BY A PINHOLE LEAK RESULTING FROM INTERNAL CORROSION. A LEAK CLAMP WAS INSTALLED FOR PERMANENET REPAIR.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $642,498 reported total cost, $351,509.873 in 1984 dollars, $821,836.173 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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