KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-02-06

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2037 NATURAL GAS released, $100,000 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: 20170019.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 2/6/2017 15:50.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: BUBBLES 3' IN DIAMETER REPORTED TO KINETICA GAS CONTROL BY DONALD DUET WITH TALOS AT 15:50 ON 2/6/17. CHESTER FRUGE WITH TALOS WAS IN HELICOPTER AND VIEWED THE LEAK, THEN REPORTED TO DONALD DUET. KINETICA OPERATIONS AND GAS CONTROL VIEWED SCADA BUT DID NOT SEE ANY LOSS OF LINE PRESSURE. OPERATIONS INFORMED USCG THAT MORNING OVERFLIGHT WOULD BE CONDUCTED. 2/7/17 OVERFLIGHT VERIFIED COORDINATES AND LOCATION OF LEAK IN PROXIMITY TO KINETICA'S PIPELINE. THIS PIPELINE SEGMENT HAD BEEN ISOLATED SINCE AN EARLIER LEAK IN 11/17. DSV WAS MOBILIZED AND ARRIVED ON LOCATION ON 2/10/17. CONFIRMED PINHOLE LEAK AT 7 O'CLOCK POSITION. REPAIR CLAMP INSTALLED AT 4:00 AM ON 2/11/17. PIPELINE TO REMAIN OUT OF SERVICE AND PREPARE FOR ABANDONMENT IN 2018. PRESSURE ON PIPELINE AS OF 2/13/17 IS 95#.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $111,111 reported total cost, $57,128.266 in 1984 dollars, $133,524.139 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.