MOJAVE PIPELINE OPERATING COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2014-05-20

Gas transmission and gathering incident in CADIZ, SAN BERNARDINO County, CA. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 18725 NATURAL GAS released, $100 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: 20140065.

Operator ID: 840.

Reported incident date: 5/20/2014 10:45.

Location detail: 209

Cause detail: THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE

Cause detail: TWO KINDER MORGAN (MOJAVE) TECHNICIANS PERFORMING VALVE MAINTENANCE ARRIVED AT CADIZ METER STATION AT 10:45 AM; TECHNICIANS DISCOVERED 1/2-INCH PIPE NIPPLE HAD BROKEN THUS LEAKING NATURAL GAS; TECHNICIANS CONTACTED GAS CONTROL AT 10:55 AM AND BEGAN ISOLATING METER STATION; WITH METER STATION ISOLATED AT 11:05 AM, BROKEN PIPE NIPPLE WAS REMOVED AND 1/2-INCH PLUG WAS INSTALLED; TECHNICIANS RETURNED METER STATION TO SERVICE AT 11:30 AM; THE 1/2-INCH PIPE NIPPLE HAD BEEN INSTALLED TO HOLD AN OPTIONAL 1/2-INCH BALL VALVE WHICH WAS CLOSED AND PLUGGED; NO OTHER APPURTENANCES WERE ATTACHED. TECHNICIANS WERE ON SITE FOR OTHER REASONS, THEREFORE NO COST FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $74,064 reported total cost, $51,216.731 in 1984 dollars, $62,949.025 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.