GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-03-30

Gas transmission and gathering incident in JASPER, JASPER County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 415 NATURAL GAS released, $778,931 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: 20140044.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 3/30/2014 17:40.

Location detail: 5771+04

Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: HUNTERS IN THE FOREST CAME UPON BUBBLES IN A PIPELINE RIGHT OF WAY CORRIDOR WHERE MULTIPLE PIPELINES EXISTED. AFTER INVESTIGATION, A LEAK WAS FOUND TO BE ON A GULF SOUTH ASSET. THE PRESSURE WAS REDUCED BY CLOSING THE UPSTREAM VALVE ALLOWING THE DOWNSTREAM CUSTOMER TO REMAIN IN SERVICE. A BAND CLAMP WAS INSTALLED UNTIL PERMANENT REPAIRS ARE MADE. 3-2-16 REVISED TO FINALIZE REPORT WITH TOTAL COSTS AND GAS LOSS AMOUNTS FOLLOWING PIPE REPLACEMENT.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $796,078 reported total cost, $404,893.249 in 1984 dollars, $992,730.755 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.