SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-11-11

Hazardous liquid incident in TYE, TAYLOR County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 25 CRUDE OIL released, $2,000 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: 20150453.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 11/11/2015 9:00.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE

Cause detail: DURING THE CLEANING PROCESS OF TANK 991 AT TYE STATION, OIL WAS BEING REMOVED FROM THE TANK INTO A TEMPORARY FRAC TANK LOCATED INSIDE THE CONTAINMENT DIKE. THE BOTTOM BUTTERFLY VALVE ON THE FRAC TANK FAILED RESULTING IN A RELEASE OF APPROXIMATELY 30 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL TO THE CONTAINMENT DIKE. THE DIKE CONTAINED SURFACE WATER AND THE OIL/WATER MIX WAS RECOVERED VIA VACUUM TRUCK. THE CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMEDIATED ON SITE. TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION TO THE TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSION-PIPELINE SAFETY WAS MADE ON 11/11/2015 AT 11:48.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $6,200 reported total cost, $3,110.334 in 1984 dollars, $7,659.796 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.