PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPELINE CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2019-05-10

Gas transmission and gathering incident in TUSCOLA, DOUGLAS County, IL. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3121.014 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: 20190067.

Operator ID: 15105.

Reported incident date: 5/10/2019 18:45.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE

Cause detail: 5/10/19 18:47 CST PROPERTY OWNER NOTIFIED OPERATIONS OF GAS BLOWING AT STATION. 5/10/19 18:49 CST YARD NOISE ALARM TO GAS CONTROL. 5/10/19 19:03 CST UNIT 1215 SHUTDOWN AND TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE. 5/14/19 10:53 CST NRC TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION MADE NRC#1245594. 5/14/19 11:11 CST PHMSA AID UPDATED. 5/16/19 10:16 CST 48-HOUR NRC NOTIFICATION MADE NRC#1245848. 5/16/19 10:47 CST PHMSA AID UPDATED. THE SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT SUBMITTED 8/20/19, IS MADE TO UPDATE PART D: 7D AND TO FURTHER CLARIFY THE EVENT. - THERE WERE NO REPAIRS REQUIRED TO THE RELIEF VALVE AS IT FUNCTIONED PROPERLY. IT WAS A FAULTY TEST STAND USED DURING THE TEST AND INSPECT OF THE RELIEF VALVE THAT LED TO THE SET-POINT BEING SET BELOW WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SET, RESULTING IN THE RELEASE OF GAS. - THE TEST STAND WAS COMPLETELY REBUILT AND THE ACCURACY CONFIRMED.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $8,396 reported total cost, $8,615.308 in 1984 dollars, $10,669.128 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.