AUGUST 27, 2015
Two people suffered minor injuries after a fire at a natural gas pipeline near Marsh Island in Louisiana, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP said on Thursday.
The U.S. Coast Guard said earlier Thursday they responded to the natural gas pipeline fire, 25 miles south of Marsh Island on Wednesday night.
The 10-inch pipeline belongs to Gulf South Pipeline Co , a wholly owned subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipeline.
The company did not provide a tentative timeline for the pipeline to resume normal operations.
Customers were not affected by the incident, and the cause of the fire will not be disclosed until an investigation is completed, the company said
Petty Officer Ryan Tippets said the rupture caused the pipeline to catch fire. He said the injured crew members were taken to a hospital in Houma.
The Coast Guard says the fire has been extinguished.
Tippets said the Coast Guard received notification of the rupture around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Joe Hollier, Manager of Corporate Communications for Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, said workers were performing maintenance on a 10-inch offshore line of Gulf South Pipeline when it ruptured.
Hollier says the contract workers suffered minor injuries.
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August 27th, 2015
NEW ORLEANS, LA
The Coast Guard has responded to a report of a natural gas pipeline fire, 25 miles south of Marsh Island, Wednesday.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received notification at 8:30 p.m. that a natural gas pipeline had ruptured and was on fire. Sector New Orleans directed the launch of a HC-144 Ocean Sentry fixed-wing aircraft crew from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile to monitor the situation.
The dive operation vessel Ms. Kerci was working on the pipeline at the time of the rupture. Two crew members aboard the vessel were injured and are being escorted to Houma.
The pipeline is reported to be extinguished.
The pipeline’s owner, Boardwalk/Gulf South Pipeline Co., is sending out a second vessel to repair the ruptured pipeline.
The cause of the incident is under investigation.
Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP is an energy company based in Houston, Texas.
It is a midstream master limited partnership that provides transportation, storage, gathering and processing of natural gas and liquids to its customers. Through its subsidiaries, Boardwalk operates approximately 14,450 miles (23,260 km) of pipelines and underground storage caverns with an aggregate working gas capacity of approximately 207 billion cubic feet (Bcf) and liquids capacity of 17.6 million barrels (MMbbls). Boardwalk's pipeline system originates in the Gulf Coast region, Oklahoma and Arkansas and extends north and east to the midwestern states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Boardwalk's common units are traded under the symbol "BWP" on the New York Storck Exchange (NYSE).
The general partner for Boardwalk Pipeline Partners is Boardwalk GP, LP, which is indirectly owned by Loews Corporation for 100 percent. The common units, class B and general partner interest indirectly owned by Loews Corporation represent approximately 53 percent of the equity interests, excluding the incentive distribution rights.