GENESIS PIPELINE ALABAMA, LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2022-12-09

Hazardous liquid incident in Not Within a Municipality, CONECUH County, AL. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.48 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: 20230005.

Operator ID: 32411.

Reported incident date: 12/9/2022 15:27.

Location detail: 0

Cause detail: PUMP OR PUMP-RELATED EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: ON 12/9/2022 3:27PM, GENESIS CONTROL ROOM CONTROLLER RECEIVED A LOW-PRESSURE ALARM ON THE CASTLEBERRY PUMP. THE CONTROLLER PROCEEDED TO IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN THE PUMP AND CALL LOCAL OPERATIONS PERSONNEL TO CONFIRM THE ALARM. OPERATIONS PERSONNEL PROCEEDED TO THE SITE AND UPON ARRIVING AT 4:15PM, OBSERVED CRUDE OIL ON THE GROUND SURFACE, UNDERNEATH THE PUMP IN QUESTION. OPERATIONS PERSONNEL PROCEEDED TO ALERT AREA MANAGEMENT OF THE SITUATION AND THEN PROCEEDED TO CONTACT OSRO. OSRO ARRIVED ON-SITE AND REMOVED CONTAMINATED SOIL. A VISUAL INSPECTION OF THE PUMP SHOWS THAT THE PACKING/SEAL OF THE PUMP SHAFT FAILED CAUSING PRODUCT TO ESCAPE FROM THE PUMP. ONCE THE AREA WAS CLEANED UP, THE PIPELINE WAS RESTARTED USING AN ALTERNATE PUMP THAT IS ROUTINELY USED TO OPERATE. AT THE TIME OF THIS REPORT, THE PUMP IS UNDER LOCKOUT/TAGOUT PENDING AN INVESTIGATION. A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT WILL BE SUBMITTED UPON COMPLETION OF THE INVESTIGATION. SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT (02/14/2023): INVESTIGATION OF THE ACCIDENT HAS CONCLUDED. THE CAUSE OF THE RELEASE WAS A PONY ROD THAT FAILED/BROKE ON THE PD PUMP. THE BROKEN ROD CAUSED THE PUMP SEAL TO FAIL AND RELEASE PRODUCT.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — PUMP/COMPRESSOR OR PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $15,030 reported total cost, $6,488.771 in 1984 dollars, $15,979.847 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.