ENTERPRISE CRUDE PIPELINE LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2012-02-06

Hazardous liquid incident in CUSHING, PAYNE County, OK. Reported cause: INCORRECT OPERATION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 32 CRUDE OIL released, $0 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: 20120061.

Operator ID: 30829.

Reported incident date: 2/6/2012 21:55.

Cause detail: EQUIPMENT NOT INSTALLED PROPERLY

Cause detail: CRUDE OIL WAS BEING GRAVITY TRANSFERRED INTO THE TANK IN ORDER TO FLOAT THE INTERNAL FLOATING ROOF. THE OPERATORS WERE DIRECTED TO PERFORM AN HOURLY INSPECTION OF THE TANK TO LOOK FOR LEAKS OR ISSUES DURING THE INITIAL FILL. DURING THE HOURLY INSPECTION, OIL WAS DISCOVERED IN THE TANK DIKE. AN INSPECTION OF THE TANK REVEALED THAT A BLIND WAS LEFT OFF OF WHAT WAS THOUGHT TO BE A THERMOWELD, ALLOWING OIL TO LEAK OUT OF THE TANK WHEN IT REACHED THE LEVEL OF THE 2-INCH OPEN CONNECTION.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: INCORRECT OPERATION — INCORRECT INSTALLATION.

PHMSA indexed costs: $17,296 reported total cost, $9,109.803 in 1984 dollars, $22,434.642 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.