# EXPRESS HOLDINGS (USA), LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2026-01-19 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20260029 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2026-01-19 **Published:** 2026-02-17 Hazardous liquid incident in LOMA, CHOUTEAU County, MT. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3 CRUDE OIL released, $23,304 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 LOMA, CHOUTEAU County, MT. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3 CRUDE OIL released, $23,304 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: 20260029. Operator ID: 31720. Reported incident date: 1/19/2026 12:45. Location detail: 1220 Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE Cause detail: ON JANUARY 19, 2026, AT 12:45 MST, THE CONTROL CENTER ATTEMPTED TO SHUTDOWN AND ISOLATE LINE 40 IN RESPONSE TO AN UNRELATED ALARM AT FAULKNERS COULEE STATION (UPSTREAM OF EAGLE BUTTES STATION). DURING ISOLATION, THE EAGLE BUTTES SUCTION VALVE (SP0352 13 40 V 1 / MLV 23A) FAILED TO CLOSE, AND A TECHNICIAN WAS SENT TO EAGLE BUTTES STATION. AT 14:51 MST, THE TECHNICIAN ARRIVED AT EAGLE BUTTES STATION AND DISCOVERED CRUDE OIL ON THE GROUND NEAR THE VALVE. THE CONTROL CENTER WAS NOTIFIED AND PROCEEDED TO ISOLATE THE AREA BY CLOSING ADDITIONAL UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM VALVES. THE SOURCE OF THE RELEASE WAS FOUND TO BE A LEAKING VALVE STEM SEAL, WITH AN INITIAL ESTIMATE OF APPROXIMATELY 25 GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL BEING RELEASED. REGION MANAGEMENT WAS NOTIFIED AND THE NRC WAS CONTACTED AT 16:21 MST (REPORT #1453058), BASED ON INITIAL CLEANUP COST ESTIMATES EXCEEDING REPORTING THRESHOLDS. TECHNICIANS WERE MOBILIZED TO THE SITE TO BEGIN INITIAL CLEANUP, AND CONTRACTORS WERE MOBILIZED THAT EVENING. A HYDROVAC TRUCK ARRIVED ON JANUARY 20, 2026, AT 03:00 MST AND RECOVERED THE REMAINING RELEASED PRODUCT, COMPLETING CLEANUP ACTIVITIES. THE 48-HOUR NRC UPDATE WAS MADE ON JANUARY 21 AT 14:53 MST (REPORT #1453153), REVISING THE RELEASE VOLUME TO 3 BARRELS. THE INVESTIGATION DETERMINED THE CAUSE TO BE NORMAL WEAR OF THE VALVE STEM SEAL FROM YEARS OF SERVICE. THE VALVE STEM WAS REPACKED AND RETURNED TO SERVICE. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE. PHMSA indexed costs: $502,613 reported total cost, $200,080.317 in 1984 dollars, $492,736.242 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: `37ceb80d53ba5b8fe65635b142d0c31a76431448f3acf0d121874058be46dbd6` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-22T22:04:31.103Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-528ab605eafbe12e3e3a86ba` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "hazardous_liquid", "datasetLabel": "Hazardous liquid", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20260029", "supplementalNumber": "41945", "type": "ORIGINAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2026-02-17", "receivedDateRaw": "2/17/2026" }, "operator": { "id": "31720", "name": "EXPRESS HOLDINGS (USA), LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2026-01-19", "dateRaw": "1/19/2026 12:45" }, "location": { "city": "LOMA", "county": "CHOUTEAU", "state": "MT", "postalCode": "59460", "latitude": 47.846449, "longitude": -110.211938, "type": "TOTALLY CONTAINED ON OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "1220" }, "facilityName": "LINE 40 EAGLE BUTTES STATION" }, "cause": { "category": "EQUIPMENT FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE", "NARRATIVE": "ON JANUARY 19, 2026, AT 12:45 MST, THE CONTROL CENTER ATTEMPTED TO SHUTDOWN AND ISOLATE LINE 40 IN RESPONSE TO AN UNRELATED ALARM AT FAULKNERS COULEE STATION (UPSTREAM OF EAGLE BUTTES STATION). DURING ISOLATION, THE EAGLE BUTTES SUCTION VALVE (SP0352 13 40 V 1 / MLV 23A) FAILED TO CLOSE, AND A TECHNICIAN WAS SENT TO EAGLE BUTTES STATION. AT 14:51 MST, THE TECHNICIAN ARRIVED AT EAGLE BUTTES STATION AND DISCOVERED CRUDE OIL ON THE GROUND NEAR THE VALVE. THE CONTROL CENTER WAS NOTIFIED AND PROCEEDED TO ISOLATE THE AREA BY CLOSING ADDITIONAL UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM VALVES. THE SOURCE OF THE RELEASE WAS FOUND TO BE A LEAKING VALVE STEM SEAL, WITH AN INITIAL ESTIMATE OF APPROXIMATELY 25 GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL BEING RELEASED. REGION MANAGEMENT WAS NOTIFIED AND THE NRC WAS CONTACTED AT 16:21 MST (REPORT #1453058), BASED ON INITIAL CLEANUP COST ESTIMATES EXCEEDING REPORTING THRESHOLDS. TECHNICIANS WERE MOBILIZED TO THE SITE TO BEGIN INITIAL CLEANUP, AND CONTRACTORS WERE MOBILIZED THAT EVENING. A HYDROVAC TRUCK ARRIVED ON JANUARY 20, 2026, AT 03:00 MST AND RECOVERED THE REMAINING RELEASED PRODUCT, COMPLETING CLEANUP ACTIVITIES. 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