# SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-10-29

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20150425
- **title:** SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-10-29
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2015-11-24
- **effective on:** 2015-10-29
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in LIBERTY, LIBERTY County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.36 CRUDE OIL 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.
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Hazardous liquid incident in LIBERTY, LIBERTY County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.36 CRUDE OIL 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: 20150425.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 10/29/2015 11:30.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE

Cause detail: ON 10/29/2015 OPERATION PERSONNEL DISCOVERED A RELEASE AROUND A BURIED VALVE ON THE HUMBLE TO LIBERTY 6" LINE SEGMENT. EXCAVATION AROUND THE VALVE REVEALED A FAILURE OF THE VALVE PACKING. THE VALVE HAS BEEN REMOVED, THE LINE BLINDED AND ASSOCIATED DEAD LEG PIPING REMOVED.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

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

PHMSA indexed costs: $1,000 reported total cost, $501.667 in 1984 dollars, $1,235.451 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.
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