{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Report 20120037","title":"TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE CO (EL PASO) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2012-03-23","source_type":"incident","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"historical","official":true,"published_on":"2012-04-12","effective_on":"2012-03-23","summary":"Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 413 NATURAL GAS released, $1,114,825 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-eb98a5f30890fe41d6c6379b.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-eb98a5f30890fe41d6c6379b.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-incident-eb98a5f30890fe41d6c6379b","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. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 413 NATURAL GAS released, $1,114,825 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: 20120037.\n\nOperator ID: 19160.\n\nReported incident date: 3/23/2012 15:45.\n\nCause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED\n\nCause detail: ANR PIPELINE COMPANY PERSONNEL NOTIFIED TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE (TGP) PERSONNEL OF A SHEEN MEASURING 3 MILES LONG AND 1/4 MILE WIDE IN THE VICINITY OF TGP'S 24\" 523M-3700 PIPELINE ON THE OCS IN EUGENE ISLAND BLOCK 241. TGP INVESTIGATED AND OBSERVED THE SHEEN WITH BUBBLES. DISPATCHED DIVERS DETERMINED THAT TGP'S LINE WAS LEAKING THROUGH A PINHOLE IN A GIRTH WELD. THE LEAK WAS REPAIRED BY INSTALLING A CLAMP AND THE PIPELINE WAS PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE. YEAR OF PIPE MANUFACTURE IS ASSUMED TO BE COMMENSURATE WITH YEAR OF INSTALLATION\n\nPHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.\n\nPHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED.\n\nPHMSA indexed costs: $1,175,611 reported total cost, $622,520.664 in 1984 dollars, $1,521,954.148 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":1565}