BRIDGER PIPELINE LLC — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2022-03-03

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in Not Within a Municipality, CAMPBELL County, WY. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 7 CRUDE OIL released, $9,820 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: 20220023.

Operator ID: 31878.

Reported incident date: 3/3/2022 8:00.

Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON MARCH 3, 2022 AT APPROXIMATELY 8:00 AM, A COMPANY EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING WELLS WHEN THEY DISCOVERED CRUDE OIL ON THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF THE DON ADAM WELL LINE. THE COMPANY EMPLOYEE CALLED LOCAL OPERATIONS PERSONNEL TO REPORT THE RELEASE AND AT APPROXIMATELY 8:45 AM THE LOCAL COMPANY FIELD SUPERVISOR ARRIVED ON SITE, VERIFIED THE LOCATION OF THE RELEASE, CONTACTED OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TO COMMUNICATE DETAILS OF THE RELEASE, AND SHUTDOWN AND ISOLATED THE LINE. AT APPROXIMATELY 11:30 AM, LOCAL COMPANY PIPELINE MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL ARRIVED ON SITE AND BEGAN EXCAVATING THE PIPELINE. UPON EXPOSING THE PIPE, IT WAS DETERMINED EXTERNAL CORROSION WAS THE CAUSE OF THE RELEASE. APPROXIMATELY 10 FT. OF PIPE WAS REMOVED AND REPLACED. SINCE THE RELEASE OCCURRED ON FOREST SERVICE PROPERTY, USFS WAS CONTACTED AND DISPATCHED PERSONNEL TO OVERSEE THE ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION OF THE SITE. ALL CONTAMINATED SOILS WERE EXCAVATED AND HAULED TO THE DONKEY CREEK STATION WHERE THEY WILL BE MANAGED IN ACCORDANCE WITH WYOMING DEQ REGULATIONS. SOIL SAMPLES WERE TAKEN TO ENSURE ALL CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMOVED AND THE EXCAVATION WILL BE BACKFILLED WITH CLEAN FILL DIRT WHEN THE RESULTS OF THE SOIL SAMPLE ANALYSIS ARE RECEIVED. THE RELEASE DID NOT IMPACT SURFACE WATER, GROUND WATER OR WILDLIFE.