# TARGA RESOURCES OPERATING LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-11-15

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20130115
- **title:** TARGA RESOURCES OPERATING LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2013-11-15
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2013-12-18
- **effective on:** 2013-11-15
- **summary:** Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 750 NATURAL GAS released, $160,000 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. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 750 NATURAL GAS released, $160,000 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: 20130115.

Operator ID: 32296.

Reported incident date: 11/15/2013 15:20.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: TARGA RECEIVED REPORT OF A GAS LEAK NEAR TARGA'S OFFSHORE GAS GATHERING PIPELINE ON 11/15/2013. TARGA BEGAN STEPS TO IDENTIFY IF THE LEAK ORIGINATED FROM TARGA'S PIPELINE. PRODUCTION INTO PIPELINE WAS SHUT IN. TARGA CONFIRMED ON 11/18/2013 THAT LEAK WAS FROM TARGA'S PIPELINE. CLAMP WAS INSTALLED TO REPAIR LEAKING SEGMENT AND PIPELINE RE-STARTED ON 11/23/2013.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $183,000 reported total cost, $99,328.999 in 1984 dollars, $228,624.511 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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