MARKWEST JAVELINA PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-03-16

Gas transmission and gathering incident in CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 5 OTHER GAS released, $1,500,000 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: 20150098.

Operator ID: 9171.

Reported incident date: 3/16/2015 10:45.

Location detail: 0.75 MILE

Cause detail: UNKNOWN

Cause detail: THE RG-210 20" PLANT INLET GAS PIPELINE EXPERIENCED A LEAK IN A BORED ROAD CROSSING. LOCAL EMERGENCY RESPONDERS NOTIFIED MARKWEST JAVELINA PERSONNEL AND APPROXIMATELY 10 PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED FROM A LOCAL BUSINESS. THERE WERE NO INJURIES SUSTAINED. THE PIPE SECTION WAS ISOLATED AND DE-PRESSURED TO A FLARE. THE BORED CROSSING WAS REPLACED AND THE LINE WAS RE-COMMISSIONED.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — UNKNOWN.

PHMSA indexed costs: $1,500,094 reported total cost, $752,587.398 in 1984 dollars, $1,853,283.512 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.