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PHMSA Report 20160068
GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-08-09
Current as of 2016-08-09 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in FLOWOOD, RANKIN County, MS. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 15307 NATURAL GAS 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: 20160068.
Operator ID: 31728.
Reported incident date: 8/9/2016 20:57.
Location detail: 12566+40
Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT
Cause detail: HIGH FLOW RATE FROM STORAGE FIELD WITHDRAW PACKED PIPELINE CAUSING PRESSURE INCREASE THAT TRIPPED TWO OPP VALVES. MAOP WAS NOT EXCEEDED. RELIEF VALVES WERE RESET TO STOP VENTING GAS. 5-16-18 REVISED BASED ON PHMSA INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDING CHANGING PART G - APPARENT CAUSE TO EQUIPMENT FAILURE AND ANSWERING SUBSEQUENT QUESTIONS.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $42,806 reported total cost, $44,917.232 in 1984 dollars, $55,864.229 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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