GULF SOUTH PIPELINE COMPANY, LP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-03-18

Gas transmission and gathering incident in HEIDELBERG, JASPER County, MS. Reported cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 9825 NATURAL GAS released, $7,800 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: 20160026.

Operator ID: 31728.

Reported incident date: 3/18/2016 5:32.

Location detail: 41.189

Cause detail: LIGHTNING

Cause detail: LIGHTNING FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH THE AREA STRUCK THE GENERATOR TRANSFER SWITCH. THE GENERATOR COULD NOT START UPON LOSS OF POWER TO THE STATION. ESD ACTIVATED RESULTING IN THE STATION BLOWING DOWN THROUGH THE BLOW DOWN STACK/SILENCER. DISCHARGE VALVE DID NOT FULLY SEAT RESULTING IN GAS LOSS THROUGH THE BLOW DOWN SYSTEM.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: NATURAL FORCE DAMAGE — LIGHTNING.

PHMSA indexed costs: $25,936 reported total cost, $22,622.915 in 1984 dollars, $33,184.128 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.