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PHMSA Report 20160061
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, LP (SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-07-15
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 200 NATURAL GAS released, $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: 20160061.
Operator ID: 19235.
Reported incident date: 7/15/2016 10:35.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: BUBBLES ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AT WEST CAMERON BLOCK 480 WERE OBSERVED BY A SPECTRA ENERGY EMPLOYEE FLYING IN A HELICOPTER ON JULY 15, 2016. A LEAK IN 16" LINE 41-A-8 WAS CONFIRMED AND THE PIPELINE WAS SHUT IN. SPECTRA ENERGY DOES NOT PLAN TO RETURN THE LINE TO SERVICE AND IS ABANDONING THE PIPELINE IN 2018. SPECTRA ENERGY DOES NOT PLAN TO HAVE DIVERS CONFIRM THE CAUSE OF THE INCIDENT. BASED ON THE PIPELINE'S RECENT HISTORY, THERE IS GOOD REASON TO BELIEVE THE CAUSE OF THE LEAK IS A PINHOLE RESULTING FROM INTERNAL CORROSION.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $509,900 reported total cost, $259,312.394 in 1984 dollars, $625,590.83 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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