PLAINS PIPELINE, L.P. — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2023-08-01

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in NOT WITHIN A MUNICIPALITY, UPTON County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4 CRUDE OIL released, $3,093 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: 20230074.

Operator ID: 300.

Reported incident date: 8/1/2023 20:00.

Cause detail: THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE

Cause detail: APPROXIMATELY 4 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL WERE RELEASED FROM A NIPPLE ON A PIT DEVICE CONNECTED TO THE SWEETIE PECK TO CRANE WEST 8" PIPELINE. THE DATE AND TIME OF THE RELEASE (PART A Q4) IS INDICATIVE OF THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME THE RELEASE COULD HAVE STARTED BASED ON CONTROL CENTER INFORMATION. THE CAUSE OF THE RELEASE IS ATTRIBUTED TO EQUIPMENT FAILURE AS A RESULT OF A THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE LIKELY DUE TO VIBRATION. TO PREVENT FUTURE INCIDENTS, THE NUMBER OF FITTINGS WAS REDUCED, LIMITING VIBRATION ON THE PIT DEVICE CONNECTED TO THE PIPELINE.