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PHMSA Report 20180208
PLAINS PIPELINE, L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2018-06-20
Current as of 2018-06-20 Government source
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Hazardous liquid incident in WINK, WINKLER County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3 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: 20180208.
Operator ID: 300.
Reported incident date: 6/20/2018 20:15.
Location detail: 0+00
Cause detail: PUMP OR PUMP-RELATED EQUIPMENT
Cause detail: APPROXIMATELY 3 BBLS OF CRUDE OIL WERE RELEASED AS A RESULT OF SEAL FAILURE ON WINK SOUTH'S MAINLINE UNIT #3. THE PUMP SEALS AT THIS LOCATION ARE BEING REPLACED.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — PUMP/COMPRESSOR OR PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT.
PHMSA indexed costs: $6,650 reported total cost, $3,176.633 in 1984 dollars, $7,823.068 in current-year dollars.
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