TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION LP (SPECTRA ENERGY CORP) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-09-21

Current as of 2015-09-21 Government source

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety AdministrationOfficial agency material

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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 65 NATURAL GAS released, $325,000 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: 20150122.

Operator ID: 19235.

Reported incident date: 9/21/2015 18:15.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: INDICATIONS OF BUBBLES ON THE WATER SURFACE IN EAST CAMERON 246 WERE REPORTED BY A COAST GUARD HELICOPTER ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2015. UPON INVESTIGATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THE LEAK WAS CAUSED BY A PINHOLE LEAK RESULTING FROM INTERNAL CORROSION ON TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION, L.P. 20-INCH LINE 41-A-2 NATURAL GAS PIPELINE. REPAIR BY INSTALLATION OF A CLAMP WAS COMPLETED SEPTEMBER 25, 2015.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $372,167 reported total cost, $206,776.378 in 1984 dollars, $455,221.092 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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