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PHMSA Report 20150425
SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-10-29
Current as of 2015-10-29 Government source
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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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