NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CO OF AMERICA (KMI) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2018-06-05

Gas transmission and gathering incident in HADDAM, WASHINGTON County, KS. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 252 NATURAL GAS released, $79,718 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: 20180070.

Operator ID: 13120.

Reported incident date: 6/5/2018 12:17.

Location detail: STN: 19567+00

Cause detail: ORIGINAL MANUFACTURING-RELATED (NOT GIRTH WELD OR OTHER WELDS FORMED IN THE FIELD)

Cause detail: ON JUNE 5, 2018 AT 12:17PM, A KINDER MORGAN TECH EMPLOYEE WORKING IN THE AREA NOTICED THE SMELL OF GAS AND A 10FT DIAMETER CIRCLE OF DEAD VEGETATION CENTERED DIRECTLY ON TOP OF AMARILLO LINE #3. THAT DAY, THE LINE WAS ISOLATED, BLOWN DOWN, AND SECURED AND AN EMERGENCY ONE CALL WAS PLACED. ON JUNE 6, 2018 THE LINE WAS MARKED FOR EXCAVATION. EXCAVATION COMMENCED ON JUNE 7, 2018. THE LEAK WAS LOCATED AND EXCAVATION WAS COMPLETED ON JUNE 8, 2018. THE LEAK WAS DETERMINED TO BE THE RESULT OF A WELD SEAM PENETRATOR DEFECT PRESENT FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUFACTURE OF THE PIPE. ON JUNE 9, 2018 THE LEAK WAS REPAIRED BY INSTALLING A PIPE LINE WELD ON SLEEVE AND THE PIPE WAS RECOATED. ON JUNE 10, 2018 THE LINE WAS BACKFILLED AND REGRADED AND AT 11:00AM, THE LINE WAS PLACED BACK INTO NORMAL SERVICE. ALL TIMES ABOVE ARE IN CENTRAL TIME.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — MANUFACTURING-RELATED.

PHMSA indexed costs: $166,491 reported total cost, $118,653.463 in 1984 dollars, $193,301.684 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.