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PHMSA Report 20220028
NUSTAR PERMIAN TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE, LLC — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2022-03-25
Current as of 2022-03-25 Government source
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Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in Not Within a Municipality, HOWARD County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2.38 CRUDE OIL released, $18,100 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: 20220028.
Operator ID: 39348.
Reported incident date: 3/25/2022 9:07.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: A THIRD-PARTY PUMPER NOTIFIED NUSTAR OPERATIONS PERSONNEL OF A CRUDE OIL RELEASE AT NUSTAR'S OXY-SHIELDS LACT FACILITY. THE LEAK ORIGINATED AT AN ABOVE-GRADE 6-INCH VALVE FLANGE CONNECTION BETWEEN NUSTAR'S OXY-SHIELDS LATERAL AND THE LACT FACILITY AND WAS CAUSED BY INTERNAL CORROSION OF THE FLANGE FACE. THE UPSTREAM PIPELINE WAS SHUT DOWN, AND THE LEAKING PIPE SEGMENT WAS ISOLATED. THE PIPE SPOOL CONTAINING THE FLANGE WAS REPLACED, AND A NEW GASKET WAS INSTALLED.
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