# DKL DELAWARE GATHERING, LLC — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2025-10-03

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20250100  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2025-10-03  
**Published:** 2025-11-02

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in OIL CENTER, LEA County, NM. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 CRUDE OIL released, $250 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 OIL CENTER, LEA County, NM. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 CRUDE OIL released, $250 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: 20250100.

Operator ID: 39950.

Reported incident date: 10/3/2025 8:30.

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: ON OCTOBER 3, 2025, AT APPROXIMATELY 8:30 A.M., THE OPERATIONS CONTROL CENTER (OCC) WAS NOTIFIED OF A RELEASE AT THE GAVILON LEASE AUTOMATIC CUSTODY TRANSFER (LACT) UNIT. APPROXIMATELY ONE (1) BARREL OF CRUDE OIL WAS RELEASED FROM THE DIAPHRAGM GASKET ON THE BACK PRESSURE VALVE. THERE WERE NO INJURIES, AND THE SITE WAS CLEANED UP PROMPTLY.

## 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: `e265f3264c984e38f4e86b4a4546b0f34ff02c725c8fc4ac3520450a599a1287`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T02:01:25.153Z
- Exported: 2026-08-22T21:42:52.406Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-d49c5fafca4e2cbad026d3b2`

### Source metadata

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