KINETICA ENERGY EXPRESS LLC

Incident Narrative

ON 12/15/2013 KINETICA GAS CONTROL WAS NOTIFIED BY FIELDWOOD OPERATIONS PERSONNEL ON THE SABINE PASS PLATFORM. THEY IDENTIFIED A LIGHT SHEEN IN THE WATER ABOUT 300' FROM THE PLATFORM. THEY HAD ALREADY SHUT IN THEIR PIPELINE TO DETERMINE IF THEY WERE THE SOURCE OF THE SHEEN. THEIR SHUT IN DID NOT ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM SO THEY MADE CONTACT WITH KINETICA. WE DISPATCHED OUR PERSONNEL TO THE SCENE, THEY COMMUNICATE MORE ACCURATE COORDINATES TO OUR PIPELINE DIRECTOR WHO ADVISED THEM TO ISOLATE THE PIPELINE SECTION FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION. A DIVE VESSEL WAS DISPATCHED TO THE LOCATION TO INVESTIGATE AND IDENTIFIED TINY BUBBLES WERE BEING EMITTED FROM A FLANGED SUBSEA CONNECTION. DUE TO POOR WEATHER CONDITIONS THEY RETURNED TO THE DOCK AND ARE SCHEDULED TO RETURN TO THE LOCATION AND COMPLETE AN O-RING REPLACEMENT. ON 3/3/2014 REPLACEMENT OF THE FLANGE GASKET AND O-RING WAS COMPLETED. AN INSPECTION OF THE MATERIALS INDICATED THAT DAMAGE OCCURRED DURING THE ORIGINAL INSTALLATION, WHICH OVER TIME ALLOWED FOR THE O-RING TO FLATTEN AND ALLOW THE PASSAGE OF NATURAL GAS. ALTHOUGH ORIGINAL INSTALLATION OCCURRED IN 1981, WE WILL USE THIS AS A LESSONS LEARNED FOR FUTURE INSTALLATIONS AND REVIEW OUR CONSTRUCTION PROCURES FOR POTENTIAL AREA OF IMPROVEMENT.