# HOLLY ENERGY PARTNERS - OPERATING, L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2016-08-13 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20160292 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2016-08-13 **Published:** 2016-09-12 Hazardous liquid incident in ARTESIA, EDDY County, NM. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 10 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $1,000 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 ARTESIA, EDDY County, NM. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 10 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $1,000 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: 20160292. Operator ID: 32011. Reported incident date: 8/13/2016 2:45. Location detail: MP 0 Cause detail: PUMP OR PUMP-RELATED EQUIPMENT Cause detail: AT 02:45 AM ON 08/13/16 A HEP CONTROLLER RECEIVED A SCADA HIGH SUMP AND VAPOR MONITOR ALARMS ON THE 4 CORNERS PUMP STATION, CONTACTED HEP I & E FOREMAN, AND SHUT DOWN AND ISOLATED THE STATION. SIMULTANEOUSLY ANOTHER CONTROLLER RECEIVED A CALL FROM A HFC EMPLOYEE MAKING HIS ROUNDS OF NOTICING A STRONG SMELL OF GASOLINE IN THE AREA OF THE 4 CORNERS PUMP STATION. HEP AND HFC PERSONNEL BOTH RESPONDED. IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT A SEAL ON UNIT 2 HAD FAILED, RELEASING ESTIMATED 10 BARRELS OF GASOLINE THAT WAS FLOATING ON RAIN WATER, WHICH HAD COLLECTED AT THE PUMP STATION FROM A THUNDERSTORM IN THE AREA. THE WATER AND FREE PRODUCT WERE PICKED UP BY VACUUM TRUCKS, AND PROPERLY DISPOSED OF. THE SEAL WAS REPLACED IN UNIT 2 WAS REPLACED, UNIT PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — PUMP/COMPRESSOR OR PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT. PHMSA indexed costs: $10,500 reported total cost, $5,224.211 in 1984 dollars, $12,865.624 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: `3ea6d53be71c98c3a71cdc0504f8e155e3927b06a50a465c6a2e50cfba141d8a` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T12:14:57.008Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-a8c045b4678b79b24345b0d0` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "hazardous_liquid", "datasetLabel": "Hazardous liquid", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20160292", "supplementalNumber": "21687", "type": "ORIGINAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2016-09-12", "receivedDateRaw": "9/12/2016" }, "operator": { "id": "32011", "name": "HOLLY ENERGY PARTNERS - OPERATING, L.P." }, "incident": { "date": "2016-08-13", "dateRaw": "8/13/2016 2:45" }, "location": { "city": "ARTESIA", "county": "EDDY", "state": "NM", "postalCode": "88210", "latitude": 32.847106, "longitude": -104.390717, "type": "TOTALLY CONTAINED ON OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "MP 0" }, "facilityName": "FOUR CORNERS PUMP STATION" }, "cause": { "category": "EQUIPMENT FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "PUMP OR PUMP-RELATED EQUIPMENT", "NARRATIVE": "AT 02:45 AM ON 08/13/16 A HEP CONTROLLER RECEIVED A SCADA HIGH SUMP AND VAPOR MONITOR ALARMS ON THE 4 CORNERS PUMP STATION, CONTACTED HEP I & E FOREMAN, AND SHUT DOWN AND ISOLATED THE STATION. 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