KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-10-10

Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 411 NATURAL GAS released, $341,700 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: 20130095.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 10/10/2013 12:35.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON 10.9.13 DURING ROUTINE OPERATIONS, A BSEE INSPECTOR IDENTIFIED BUBBLES IN SMI 41. UPON RETURNING TO THE OFFICE THEY LOOKED AT THE PIPELINE DATABASE AND IDENTIFIED THE 523M-1300 AS THE MOST LIKELY SOURCE OF THE RELEASE. UPON NOTIFICATION KINETICA DISPATCHED A HELICOPTER AND CREW TO VERIFY THE LEAK LOCATION AND INITIATE SHUT IN OF THE PIPELINE. CORROSION MONITORING COUPONS ARE IN USE ON THE PIPELINE ALTHOUGH NOT INDICATIONS WERE RECEIVED. KINETICA ACQUIRED THIS PIPELINE AS PART OF THE PURCHASE FROM TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY. AT THIS TIME, THE TGP / EP PROGRAMS FOR CORROSION MONITORING AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS WHICH HAVE BEEN UTILIZED ON THE ASSETS ARE UNDERGOING THIRD PARTY EVALUATION BY TWO ORGANIZATIONS, CORRPRO AND NALCO CHAMPION. NOTE: NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, THIS WAS JUST THE ONLY WAY I COULD GET THE SYSTEM TO CREATE A FINAL REPORT.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $375,028 reported total cost, $200,793.706 in 1984 dollars, $471,176.41 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.