TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-01-07

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Gas transmission and gathering incident in BREMEN, MUHLENBERG County, KY. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 9798 NATURAL GAS released, $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: 20150007.

Operator ID: 19270.

Reported incident date: 1/7/2015 9:08.

Location detail: 18.6313

Cause detail: TEMPERATURE

Cause detail: AN OPERATOR EMPLOYEE HEARD GAS VENTING IN COMPRESSOR STATION YARD. THE SOURCE WAS AN ESD BLOW DOWN VALVE. A DOWNSTREAM VALVE WAS CLOSED TO STOP THE RELEASE. THE ESD PNEUMATIC CONTROL VALVE THAT INITIATES THE VALVE THAT WAS VENTING WAS REMOVED AND INSPECTED, THEN REBUILT WITH THE MANUFACTURER'S REPAIR KIT. THE VALVE WAS PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE AND MONITORED FOR PROPER OPERATION.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — TEMPERATURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $31,988 reported total cost, $29,447.453 in 1984 dollars, $36,466.74 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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