# KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-03-26

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20150055
- **title:** KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-03-26
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2015-04-20
- **effective on:** 2015-03-26
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, CAMERON County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 180 NATURAL GAS released, $225,000 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.
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, CAMERON County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 180 NATURAL GAS released, $225,000 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.

Report number: 20150055.

Operator ID: 38987.

Reported incident date: 3/26/2015 14:05.

Location detail: VALVE STATION

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: DURING A LOCATION VISIT WITH THE LAND OWNER, OUR RIGHT OF WAY DIRECTOR SAW UNUSUAL INFREQUENT DISTURBANCE ON THE TOP OF THE WATER IN THE PIPELINE CANAL FOR THE 507F-100 PIPELINE. THE DISTURBANCE OF THE WATER SURFACE WAS NOT CONSISTENT WITH A PIPELINE LEAK AND APPEARED TO BE RELATED TO SWAMP GAS. OUR OPERATIONS DIRECTOR MADE A DECISION TO DISPATCH A SHALLOW WATER DIVE PACKAGE TO THE LOCATION TO INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL FOR A MAINTENANCE LEAK. UPON EXCAVATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS VERY SMALL, INTERMITTENT BUBBLES BEING RELEASED. THE PIPE WAS CLEANED AND PREPPED AND A REPAIR CLAMP WAS INSTALLED. UPDATED: DISTANCE BETWEEN VALVES. EXPLANATION FOR SUSPECTED MIC

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $228,900 reported total cost, $115,214.543 in 1984 dollars, $282,707.475 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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