PHMSA Report 20220010
PHMSA Report 20220010
Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in Not Within a Municipality, ANDREWS COUNTY County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2 CRUDE OIL released, $15,000 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: 20220010.
Operator ID: 31888.
Reported incident date: 1/22/2022 11:04.
Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: ON JANUARY 22, 2022, A CENTURION PIPELINE L.P. (CPL) EMPLOYEE WAS NOTIFIED BY A LANDOWNER THAT THERE WAS A LEAK ON CPL'S PIPELINE'S RIGHT-OF-WAY (ROW). THE CPL EMPLOYEE ARRIVED ON SITE AT 11:04AM AND CONFIRMED THE LEAK WAS ON CPL'S TITAN 36695 4'' PIPELINE LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES EAST OF ANDREWS IN ANDREWS COUNTY, TEXAS. CPL TEMPORARILY REPAIRED LEAK WITH CLAMP AND LEAK WAS CONTAINED ENTIRELY IN PIPELINE'S ROW. CPL REMEDIATED THE CONTAMINATED SOIL AND TWO (2) BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL WERE RELEASED AND RECOVERED DURING THE PROCESS. NO INJURIES, FATALITIES OR FIRES WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS INCIDENT. CPL DETERMINED THE CAUSE OF THE LEAK TO BE EXTERNAL CORROSION DUE TO COATING FAILURE THAT RESULTED IN TWO THROUGH-WALL CORROSION PITS AT THE 8 O'CLOCK AND 10 O'CLOCK POSITIONS. UPON EXCAVATION, CPL DISCOVERED THAT THE EXTERNAL CORROSION DAMAGE EXTENDED BEYOND THE IMMEDIATE LEAK LOCATION AND REPLACED THE DAMAGED SECTION WITH 90 FEET OF PIPE COATED WITH FUSION BONDED EPOXY (FBE). NO FURTHER ACTIONS ARE REQUIRED.
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