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PHMSA Report 20140003
TARGA RESOURCES OPERATING LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-12-11
Current as of 2013-12-11 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 750 NATURAL GAS released, $182,500 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: 20140003.
Operator ID: 32296.
Reported incident date: 12/11/2013 12:00.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: TARGA RECEIVED REPORT OF A GAS LEAK NEAR TARGA'S OFFSHORE GAS GATHERING PIPELINE ON 12/11/2013. TARGA RESPONDEDE BY SHUTTING IN PRODUCTION TO THE LINE AND REDUCING OPERATING PRESSURE. A CLAMP WAS INSTALLED TO REPAIR LEAKING SEGMENT AND PIPELINE RE-STARTED ON 12/16/2013.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $208,500 reported total cost, $112,518.481 in 1984 dollars, $261,106.147 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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