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PHMSA Report 20100006
SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE, INC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2010-03-02
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Gas transmission and gathering incident in ABBYVILLE, RENO County, KS. Reported cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 91089 NATURAL GAS released, $638,025 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: 20100006.
Operator ID: 31711.
Reported incident date: 3/2/2010 4:20.
Location detail: 140/26053
Cause detail: DESIGN-, CONSTRUCTION-, INSTALLATION-, OR FABRICATION-RELATED
Cause detail: AT 4:20AM THE GAS CONTROLLER NOTICED A PRESSURE DROP AT THE STAFFORD STATION OF APPROX. 100 PSI. IN APPROX. 30 MIN. AT 4:30AM THE GAS CONTROLLER CONTACTED THE ON CALL OPERATOR TO GO TO HESSTON STATION TO SEE IF HE CAN INDENTIFY ANY PROBLEMS THERE. ASLO,THE GAS CONTROLLERCONTACTED A SECOND OPERATOR ON CALLTO GO TO STAFFORD STATION AND SEE IF HE CAN IDENTIFY ANY PROBLEMS THERE. A PINCH WAS ENABLED AT STAFFORD STATION TO HOLD UPSTREAM PRESSURE FOR POWER PLANTS. AT 5:08AM THE GAS CONTROLLER RECEIVED A CALL FROM RENO COUNTY 911 DISPATCH ABOUT A LEAK AT RED ROCK ROAD AND ANDRE ROAD IN RENO COUNTY KANSAS. THE GAS CONTROLLER WAS INFORMED BY THE DISPATCHER THAT RENO COUNTY EMERGENCY CREWS WERE ON SITE. AT 6:03AM THE SOUTHERN STAR LYONS DISTRICT MANAGER ARRIVED ON SITE. AT 6:06AM SOUTHERN STAR PERSONNEL ON SITE CALLED GAS CONTROL TO INFORM THEM THAT HE WAS SHUTTING IN THE RA LINE. AT 7:22 KGS ARK RIVER IS FLOWING TO ASSIST SSCGP. AT 8:00AM RA WAS ISOLATED. AT 8:40AM SOUTHERN STAR PERSONNEL ON SITE CALLED GAS CONTROL TO INFORM HIM THAT ARK RIVER IS PHYSICALLY SHUT IN TO MAKE SURE NO GAS FLOWS INTO RA LINE.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: MATERIAL FAILURE OF PIPE OR WELD — CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION OR FABRICATION-RELATED.
PHMSA indexed costs: $953,905 reported total cost, $550,817.689 in 1984 dollars, $1,108,761.134 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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