# CHEVRON PIPELINE CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1996-02-05

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 19960037  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1996-02-05  
**Published:** 1996-03-11

Hazardous liquid incident in MONAHANS, WARD County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 370 CRUDE OIL released, $12,016 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 MONAHANS, WARD County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 370 CRUDE OIL released, $12,016 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: 19960037.

Operator ID: 2731.

Reported incident date: 19960205.

Location detail: 3 MILES NORTH OF MONAHANS AT THE CPL TANK FARM. SPILL WAS APPROX. 100 YRDS EAST OF THE TANK FARM FENCE LINE.

Cause detail: CORROSION, EXTERNAL

Cause detail: THE AIR PATROL PILOT CALLED THE SPILL IN TO THE STATION OPERATOR. THE OPERATOR CALLED THE DISPATCHER TO HAVE THE LINE SHUT DOWN THEN WENT TO INVESTIGATE THE SPILL. THE INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM WAS IMPLEMENTED FOR THE RESPONSE. FREEOIL WAS VACUUMED UP AND RETURNED TO THE SYSTEM. THE LINE WAS TEMPORARILY CLAMPED WITH PERMANENT REPAIRS SCHEDULED FOR A LATER DATE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $12,016 reported total cost, $8,648.302 in 1984 dollars, $21,298.105 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/2cb38c7d-9a3e-4074-b175-05a5cd0c44a6?download=true&filename=Hazardous%20Liquid%20Accident%20Data%201986%20to%20January%202002.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `ca11f66a254ceeeb6d259022de299b6646705f8f24e12f04158237132e97812a`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-22T04:33:47.806Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-5fafef490000b034cb129864`

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