{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20160010","title":"COLORADO INTERSTATE GAS CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-01-02","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2016-01-27","effective_on":"2016-01-02","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, ARAPAHO County, CO. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 35392 NATURAL GAS released, $14,000 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-e8dc02f0702f27eca60dcaa9.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-e8dc02f0702f27eca60dcaa9.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-e8dc02f0702f27eca60dcaa9","source_url":"https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8?download=true&filename=Gas%20Transmission%20%26%20Gathering%20Incident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip","body":"Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, ARAPAHO County, CO. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 35392 NATURAL GAS released, $14,000 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.\n\nReport number: 20160010.\n\nOperator ID: 2564.\n\nReported incident date: 1/2/2016 2:53.\n\nLocation detail: MP 5 PLUS 498\n\nCause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT\n\nCause detail: 02:53 CIG TOTEM STATION NOTICED PRESSURE CHANGE AT LATIGO STATION AND CALLED OUT TECHNICIANS TO RESPOND; CIG GAS CONTROL ALSO NOTICED PRESSURE CHANGE; 03:24 TECHNICIANS ARRIVED AT LATIGO STATION AND CONFIRMED TWO 6-INCH VENT VALVES WERE RELEASING NATURAL GAS; TECHNICIANS ATTEMPTED TO STOP THE NATURAL GAS RELEASE BY USE OF STATION ESD SYSTEM; STATION ESD SYSTEM DID NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY; 03:30 A LOCAL FIRE CHIEF ARRIVED, NOTIFIED BY LANDOWNERS; BY THIS TIME LANDOWNERS HAD ALSO CALLED CIG GAS CONTROL; 03:34 TECHNICIANS COMPLETED CLOSING STATION BLOCK VALVE THUS STOPPING THE RELEASE OF NATURAL GAS; WITH THE VALVE CLOSURE, THE STATION WAS SHUT IN AND ISOLATED; INVESTIGATION FOUND FROZEN AIR SUPPLY LINES INCLUDING FROZEN INSTRUMENT AIR LINES; SAID FROZEN LINES ALLOWED THE TWO 6-INCH VENT VALVES TO OPEN; SAID FROZEN LINES PREVENTED THE ESD SYSTEM FROM PROPER FUNCTION; THE AIR SUPPLY SYSTEM WAS FLUSHED; A NEW AIR DRYER WAS INSTALLED IN THE AIR SUPPLY SYSTEM; LATIGO STATION SHUT IN WAS TERMINATED 10:00, 01/07/2016;\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $145,000 reported total cost, $145,872.862 in 1984 dollars, $188,325.555 in current-year dollars.\n\nPHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.","truncated":false,"body_characters":2063}