CYPRESS GAS PIPELINE COMPANY

Incident Narrative

ON MARCH 22, 2010, LOCAL OPERATING PERSONNEL WAS NOTIFIED BY OPERATIONS CONTROL THAT THERE WAS A PRESSURE LOSS ON THE BR-S #001 16"" PIPELINE NEAR BERWICK, LA IN ST. MARY PARISH. THE LINE WAS PRESSURED, HOWEVER WAS NOT FLOWING. IN ADDITION, OPERATIONS CONTROL RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE BERWICK POLICE DEPARTMENT INDICATING THAT A PIPELINE HAD RUPTURED BEHIND THE LANDFILL APPROXIMATELY 2 MILES WEST OF THE ATCHAFALAYA RIVER BRIDGE ON HWY 49. LOCAL OPERATING PERSONNEL ARRIVED ON THE SCENE TO FIND THAT A PIPE RUPTURE HAD OCCURRED RELEASING PIPE AND NATURAL GAS FROM THE BR-S #001 PIPELINE ROW. THE LINE WAS IMMEDIATELY ISOLATED. ACTIONS WERE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY TO SECURE THE SITE AND PERFORM A FIELD INVESTIGATION. PIPE SPECIMENS AND SOIL SAMPLES WERE TAKEN AND SECURED IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS. THE PIPE SAMPLES WERE SUBMITTED TO WELDING AND TESTING LABORATORIES IN BATON ROUGE, LA FOR A METALLURGY EXAMINATION. TESTING IS PRESENTLY BEING CONDUCTED. FINAL LAB REPORT HAS BEEN COMPLETED. A REVIEW OF THE WELDING AND TESTING LABAROTORIES FINAL REPORT IS BEING REVIEWED BY COMPANY INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT GROUP TO DETERMINE ASSESSMENT OPTIONS BEFORE PUTTING PIPELINE BACK IN SERVICE. NOTE: PART C-4: THE VALUE DEFAULTED TO 1959 WHEN ACTUAL INSTALLATION OCCURRED IN 1953. ALSO, PART A (5) WOULD NOT TAKE LATITUDE 29.673 OR LONGITUDE -91.251.