# SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-11-11

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150453  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2015-11-11  
**Published:** 2015-12-10

Hazardous liquid incident in TYE, TAYLOR County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 25 CRUDE OIL released, $2,000 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. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

## Document text

Hazardous liquid incident in TYE, TAYLOR County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 25 CRUDE OIL released, $2,000 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: 20150453.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 11/11/2015 9:00.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE

Cause detail: DURING THE CLEANING PROCESS OF TANK 991 AT TYE STATION, OIL WAS BEING REMOVED FROM THE TANK INTO A TEMPORARY FRAC TANK LOCATED INSIDE THE CONTAINMENT DIKE. THE BOTTOM BUTTERFLY VALVE ON THE FRAC TANK FAILED RESULTING IN A RELEASE OF APPROXIMATELY 30 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL TO THE CONTAINMENT DIKE. THE DIKE CONTAINED SURFACE WATER AND THE OIL/WATER MIX WAS RECOVERED VIA VACUUM TRUCK. THE CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMEDIATED ON SITE. TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION TO THE TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSION-PIPELINE SAFETY WAS MADE ON 11/11/2015 AT 11:48.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $6,200 reported total cost, $3,110.334 in 1984 dollars, $7,659.796 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.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/1d547e17-2be1-4a32-9958-a1d5a946ade9?download=true&filename=Hazardous%20Liquid%20Accident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `b5996ac7129a609fc5d112e3dca2c10d72dead0d981fde4595b1878bfdbd1d1f`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T12:54:43.058Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-0e3003e94087892b531739fd`

### Source metadata

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