BUCKEYE PARTNERS, LP — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2014-08-20

Hazardous liquid incident in LINDEN, UNION County, NJ. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 143 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $155,059 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: 20140333.

Operator ID: 1845.

Reported incident date: 8/20/2014 8:30.

Location detail: LN

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON 8/20/2014 AT 08:30, LINDEN STATION OPERATIONS PERSONNEL DISCOVERED JET FUEL IN THE FACILITY STORM WATER SYSTEM. EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROCEDURES WERE IMPLEMENTED AND REQUIRED NOTIFICATIONS WERE MADE. LOCAL OPERATIONS PERSONNEL SECURED ALL POTENTIALLY AFFECTED LINES AND DEPLOYED ABSORBENT PADS. ALL PRODUCT RELEASED WAS CONTAINED ON LINDEN STATION PROPERTY. BY 09:00, VACUUM TRUCKS ARRIVED ON SITE AND STARTED RECOVERING PRODUCT. OVER THE NEXT SIX DAYS, A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO ANALYZE STATION DIAGRAMS, AND TRACK ALL PRODUCTS THROUGH THE STATION, LEAD TO THE EXCAVATION, ISOLATION AND PRESSURE TESTING OF VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE 12 INCH BAYWAY LINE SHIPPER MANIFOLD AREA OF THE STATION. ON 8/26/2014, LINDEN STATION WAS SHUTDOWN, TO ISOLATE A DEAD LEG ON A SECTION OF THE STATION PRESSURE RELIEF SYSTEM ATTACHED TO THE 12 INCH BAYWAY LINE SHIPPER MANIFOLD. AFTER UNSATISFACTORY PRESSURE TEST RESULTS, THE DEAD LEG WAS REMOVED, A BLIND FLANGE INSTALLED, AND THE SECTION OF REMOVED PIPE WAS SENT FOR METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS. ALL FREE PRODUCT WAS RECOVERED, AND CONTAMINATED SOIL REMOVED. NO FURTHER REMEDIATION IS NECESSARY. METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS PERFORMED BY A THIRD PARTY LABORATORY DETERMINED THAT THE RELEASE OCCURRED AS A RESULT OF INTERNAL CORROSION. THE PRESENCE OF BACTERIA, DISCOVERED BY THE ANALYSIS, INDICATES THAT THE CORROSION WAS LIKELY DUE TO MICROBIOLOGICALLY INFLUENCED CORROSION.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $976,244 reported total cost, $495,363.887 in 1984 dollars, $1,219,928.798 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.