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PHMSA Report 20040056
WILLIAMS GAS PIPELINE - TRANSCO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2004-06-19
Current as of 2004-06-19 Government source
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Gas transmission and gathering incident. Reported cause: 1. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $90,000 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: 20040056.
Operator ID: 19570.
Reported incident date: 6/19/2004.
Cause detail: CORROSION, EXTERNAL
Cause detail: LEAK WAS DISCOVERED OFFSHORE AT BA 450 AND REPORTED TO WGP GAS CONTROL. DIVERS DISCOVERED THE LEAK COMING FROM THE WELD THAT CONNECTED THE CATHODIC PROTECTION ANODE TO THE PIPE. THE LEAK WAS CLAMPED AND THE PIPELINE RETURNED TO SERVICE.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $90,000 reported total cost, $55,710.698 in 1984 dollars, $129,863.514 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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