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PHMSA Report 20150335
SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-08-21
Current as of 2015-08-21 Government source
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Hazardous liquid incident in NOME, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 CRUDE OIL released, $14,000 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: 20150335.
Operator ID: 18718.
Reported incident date: 8/21/2015 17:00.
Location detail: 368+03
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: ON 8/21/2015 A LANDOWNER NOTIFIED SOUR LAKE FIELD OFFICE OF A STAIN ON HIS PROPERTY. OPERATIONS PERSONNEL RESPONDED, EXCAVATED THE AREA AND CONFIRMED A PINHOLE LEAK ON THE NOME TO DANIEL'S JCT. 4" LINE SEGMENT. APPROXIMATELY ONE BARREL WAS RELEASED. THE AFFECTED SECTION OF PIPING HAS BEEN REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH NEW PIPE. CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE AFFECTED PIPING REVEALED MICROBIAL INDUCED CORROSION (MIC).
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $22,000 reported total cost, $11,036.67 in 1984 dollars, $27,179.922 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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