# ENTERPRISE CRUDE PIPELINE LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2022-11-21

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20220288  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2022-11-21  
**Published:** 2022-12-20

Hazardous liquid incident in STANTON, MARTIN County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4.5 CRUDE OIL released, $26,000 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 STANTON, MARTIN County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4.5 CRUDE OIL released, $26,000 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: 20220288.

Operator ID: 30829.

Reported incident date: 11/21/2022 7:30.

Location detail: COWDEN

Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE

Cause detail: ON 11/21/2022 AT 7:30 AM CST, ENTERPRISE PIPELINE TECHNICIAN OBSERVED FAILED AIR ELIMINATOR ON COWDEN STATION METER SKID. 4.5 BARRELS OF OIL REACHED THE GROUND. THE LEAK WAS ISOLATED AND SOIL REMEDIATED. THE AIR ELIMINATOR DID NOT FUNCTION CORRECTLY BECAUSE OF DEBRIS PREVENTING PROPER SEAL. AFTER FURTHER INVESTIGATION, THE AIR ELIMINATOR WAS ABLE TO BE REMOVED AND VALVE WAS PLUGGED.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $26,891 reported total cost, $11,609.418 in 1984 dollars, $28,590.423 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: `fc31a3a7600f4a2945a28b860c8d8e176c608f7730ee6f7e99895341cab7bfac`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T12:40:18.819Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-eee03b7af60e90696d498f69`

### Source metadata

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