# WEST TEXAS GULF PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2025-09-25 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20250245 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2025-09-25 **Published:** 2025-10-21 Hazardous liquid incident in Not Within a Municipality, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER ACCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.12 CRUDE OIL released, $55,000 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: significant incident, not serious. ## Document text Hazardous liquid incident in Not Within a Municipality, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER ACCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.12 CRUDE OIL released, $55,000 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: 20250245. Operator ID: 22442. Reported incident date: 9/25/2025 10:24. Location detail: 961334.5 Cause detail: UNKNOWN Cause detail: ON 09/25/25 AT APPROXIMATELY 10:24, CONTRACTORS WORKING FOR THE COMPANY PUNCTURED THE 21002.01 - 26INCH NEDERLAND TO TRINITY LINE CAUSING CRUDE OIL TO RELEASE. OPERATIONS WAS IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED AND DISPATCHED TO THE LOCATION. THE LINE WAS ISOLATED BECAUSE THE LINE WAS ALREADY SHUT DOWN FOR A PROJECT. APPROXIMATELY 25 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL WAS RELEASED TO THE SOIL WITH 5 GALLONS MIGRATING INTO LNVA CANAL. AN OSRO CLEANED UP RELEASED PRODUCT AND CONTAMINATED SOIL. THE LEAK WAS REPAIRED BY INSTALLING A MECHANICAL CLAMP. THE LINE WAS RESTARTED ON 09/26/25 AT APPROXIMATELY 09:00. THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT WILL BE SUBMITTED ONCE COMPLETE. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: INCORRECT OPERATION — DAMAGE BY OPERATOR OR OPERATOR'S CONTRACTOR. PHMSA indexed costs: $1,331,500 reported total cost, $540,668.453 in 1984 dollars, $1,331,500 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: - Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents` - SHA-256: `282fde8ac71c9d2f94a6804f7a6367cb170f17dfe4f1baa7132ad03fbe65a33d` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-23T23:45:11.604Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-35209bc433c958529a9fa043` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "hazardous_liquid", "datasetLabel": "Hazardous liquid", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20250245", "supplementalNumber": "41495", "type": "ORIGINAL", "receivedDate": "2025-10-21", "receivedDateRaw": "10/21/2025" }, "operator": { "id": "22442", "name": "WEST TEXAS GULF PIPELINE CO" }, "incident": { "date": "2025-09-25", "dateRaw": "9/25/2025 10:24" }, "location": { "city": "Not Within a Municipality", "county": "JEFFERSON", "state": "TX", "postalCode": "77713", "latitude": 30.100855, "longitude": -94.246006, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "961334.5" }, "facilityName": "WEST TEXAS GULF PIPELINE" }, "cause": { "category": "OTHER ACCIDENT CAUSE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "UNKNOWN", "NARRATIVE": "ON 09/25/25 AT APPROXIMATELY 10:24, CONTRACTORS WORKING FOR THE COMPANY PUNCTURED THE 21002.01 - 26INCH NEDERLAND TO TRINITY LINE CAUSING CRUDE OIL TO RELEASE. 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