# WHITNEY OIL & GAS, LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2023-11-29

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20230307  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2023-11-29  
**Published:** 2023-12-24

Hazardous liquid incident in LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.2 CRUDE OIL released, $15,000 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 LA. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.2 CRUDE OIL released, $15,000 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: 20230307.

Operator ID: 39377.

Reported incident date: 11/29/2023 7:45.

Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: OPERATORS NOTICED A SHEEN ON THE WATER BETWEEN C PLATFORM AND KO #1. OPERATORS ISOLATED THE PIPELINE ON BOTH ENDS BY CLOSING THE MANUAL VALVES AT EACH LOCATION. DIVER FOUND A PINHOLE IN THE PIPELINE AND INSTALLED PLIDCO CLAMP. THE PIPELINE WAS PRESSURE TESTED FOR LEAK AND RETURNED TO SERVICE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $15,050 reported total cost, $6,358.764 in 1984 dollars, $15,659.678 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/1d547e17-2be1-4a32-9958-a1d5a946ade9?download=true&filename=Hazardous%20Liquid%20Accident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `a161a36a784a82ae1e9baeeb913332acadffff6174d045467a95eac3644b0260`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T13:07:48.153Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-b1d7b5718bbf17d291926a19`

### Source metadata

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