# WESTERN MIDSTREAM PARTNERS, LP — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2024-08-05

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20250106  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2024-08-05  
**Published:** 2025-11-25

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in NOT WITHIN A MUNICIPALITY, DIMMIT County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3467 CRUDE OIL released, $20,000 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.

## Document text

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in NOT WITHIN A MUNICIPALITY, DIMMIT County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3467 CRUDE OIL released, $20,000 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: 20250106.

Operator ID: 473.

Reported incident date: 8/5/2024 11:52.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON 8/5/2024 A SMALL PINHOLE LEAK WAS DISCOVERED ON THE LT-8" CAT-S CPF-E ROW TO CAT-W 12" LINE, PART OF THE SPRINGFIELD LLC PIPELINE SYSTEM. UPON INVESTIGATION IT WAS DETERMINED THAT INTERNAL CORROSION HAD CAUSED THE PINHOLE, WHICH WAS CUT OUT AND REPAIRED, QUICKLY RETURNING THE LINE TO SERVICE ON 8/6/2024. THE LEAK WAS ORIGINALLY ESTIMATED AS 3BBLS, BUT OVER THE FOLLOWING MONTHS, ENVIRONMENTAL DELINEATION UNCOVERED A GREATER DEGREE OF SOIL CONTAMINATION, WITH A FINAL ESTIMATE OF THE SPILL TO BE APPROXIMATELY 3,467BBLS. A NOTIFICATION TO THE NRC AND RRC WERE MADE ON 11/1/2025, REPORTING AND UPDATING THIS INCIDENT.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/28f0a80f-a155-4294-8d1e-1d46f1237896?download=true&filename=Hazardous%20Liquid%20Gravity%20%26%20Reporting-Regulated-Only%20Jul%202020_present.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `9dd9c469cedfb9bac46a0bb02b59e2b5dcd528527d5d02f726fda2416286dbf0`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T02:01:25.153Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T08:58:04.864Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-40129ea27722b0ac1aa80a78`

### Source metadata

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