ALBEMARLE CORPORATION — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-11-20

Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, COLUMBIA County, AR. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 113 NATURAL GAS released, $14,486 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: 20170018.

Operator ID: 30851.

Reported incident date: 11/20/2016 11:30.

Location detail: PETA-TP-6

Cause detail: MISCELLANEOUS

Cause detail: DEER HUNTER WAS HUNTING IN WHITING ROW APPROXIMATELY 300 YARDS FROM THE ALBEMARLE ROW. HE SHOT AT A DEER AND MISSED BUT THE BULLET HIT THE PETROCHEM GAS PIPELINE WHICH IS ABOVE GROUND AT THIS POINT TO MAKE A TIE-IN TO THE WHITING GAS LINE. THE BULLET PUNCTURED THE PIPELINE CAUSING 330 PSIG NATURAL GAS TO ESCAPE TO ATMOSPHERE. THE HUNTER IDENTIFIED THE OWNER OF THE PIPELINE (ALBEMARLE) FROM THE PIPELINE MARKERS AND CALLED SOUTH PLANT SECURITY TO NOTIFY OF THE INCIDENT. PETROCHEM WAS CALLED TO SHUTDOWN SENDING GAS TO ALBEMARLE. THE PIPELINE WAS BLOCKED AT THE WEST PLANT AND SOUTH PLANT. KENNY KENDRICK WAS NOTIFIED AS WELL AS LARRY TAYLOR (COLUMBIA COUNTY OEM) AND PLANT MANAGEMENT. THE BRINEFIELD PUMPERS AND SUPERVISORS WENT TO THE SCENE AND INSTALLED BARRICADE TAPE AT THE ROW ENTRANCES NORTH AND SOUTH TO PREVENT ENTRY. THE LINE WAS BLED DOWN AND SECURED. AN EMAIL WAS SENT TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION CHIEF INFORMING THEM OF THE INCIDENT.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — MISCELLANEOUS.

PHMSA indexed costs: $15,159 reported total cost, $7,923.958 in 1984 dollars, $18,629.458 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.