HARVEST PIPELINE COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-11-21

Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, VERMILLION (IN VERMILLION BAY) County, LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 10 NATURAL GAS released, $115,000 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: 20160092.

Operator ID: 30782.

Reported incident date: 11/21/2016 16:30.

Location detail: IN VERMILLION

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: AIR PATROL NOTIFIED PIPELINE OPERATOR OF POSSIBLE BUBBLES IN VICINITY OF PIPELINE. OPERATOR WAS DISPATCHED TO AREA AND DID CONFIRM BUBBLES FROM OUR ROW. SURVEY CREW WAS DISPATCHED TO AREA TO LOCATE PIPELINE, PIPELINE WAS BLOCKED IN AT THE SAME TIME. WORK CREW WAS SET UP TO BLOW DOWN THE PIPELINE. WORK BARGE WAS THEN DISPATCHED TO LEAK SITE AND BEGAN JETTING COVER LOCATE THE LEAK. ONCE LOCATED EXCAVATION AND REPAIR BEGAN. A PLIDCO SPLIT SLEEVE WAS INSTALLED OVER THE PIN HOLE FOR REPAIR.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $126,025 reported total cost, $68,955.759 in 1984 dollars, $155,321.956 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.