PHMSA Report 20180081 - KINDER MORGAN TEJAS PIPELINE — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-07-10 | Regulus

Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, HIDALGO County, TX. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 6270 NATURAL GAS released, $37,700 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: 20180081.

Operator ID: 4900.

Reported incident date: 7/10/2018 17:29.

Location detail: 120259.26

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: NOTIFICATION ISSUE

Cause detail: NO NOTIFICATION MADE TO THE ONE-CALL CENTER/811

Cause detail: ON JULY 10, 2018 AT 17:29, KINDER MORGAN TEJAS PIPELINE (TEJAS) GAS CONTROL NOTICED A PRESSURE DROP ON THE STARR 8" LINE AND NOTIFIED FIELD PERSONNEL. AT 17:41, A LINE PATROLLER VISUALLY CONFIRMED THAT THERE WAS A GAS RELEASE. THE RELEASE RESULTED FROM A 3RD PARTY LINE STRIKE. A FARMER USING FARMING EQUIPMENT IN HIS FIELD PUNCTURED THE LINE CAUSING 6,270MCF OF GAS TO BE RELEASED UNINTENTIONALLY. THERE WERE NO INJURIES. THE FARMER DID NOT PLACE A ONE-CALL BEFORE STARTING HIS WORK. IN RESPONSE TO THIS EVENT, TEJAS ISOLATED THE PIPELINE AT 18:31 ON JULY 10. THE PIPELINE WAS THEN BLOWN DOWN. ON JULY 11, EXCAVATION OF THE LINE BEGAN. ON JULY 26, THE PUNCTURED SEGMENT OF THE PIPE WAS CUTOUT AND NEW PIPE WAS INSTALLED. ON JULY 27, THE LINE WAS RECOATED. ON JULY 31, THE LINE WAS PURGED, PACKED, AND RETURNED TO SERVICE. IN ORDER TO PREVENT A REOCCURRENCE, THE NEW PIPELINE WAS INSTALLED WITH A DEPTH OF COVER OF 36 INCHES.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $62,426 reported total cost, $39,273.702 in 1984 dollars, $72,819.785 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.