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PHMSA Report 20120111
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION LP (SPECTRA ENERGY CORP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-10-24
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2074 NATURAL GAS released, $240,000 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: 20120111.
Operator ID: 19235.
Reported incident date: 10/24/2012 8:30.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: INDICATIONS OF BUBBLES ON THE WATER SURFACE IN MAIN PASS BLOCK 94 WERE REPORTED ON OCTOBER 24, 2012 BY SPECTRA ENERGY PERSONNEL CONDUCTING A ROUTINE FLY OVER IN A HELICOPTER. THE LEAK WAS CAUSED BY A PINHOLE LEAK RESULTING FROM INTERNAL CORROSION. REPAIR WAS COMPLETED BY INSTALLING A LEAK CLAMP.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $269,974 reported total cost, $151,439.142 in 1984 dollars, $342,038.44 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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