# TEPPCO CRUDE PIPELINE, LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2009-12-18

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20090357
- **title:** TEPPCO CRUDE PIPELINE, LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2009-12-18
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2009-12-18
- **effective on:** 2009-12-18
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in HOBBS, GAINES County, TX. Reported cause: 2. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, YES CRUDE OIL released, $86,300 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
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Hazardous liquid incident in HOBBS, GAINES County, TX. Reported cause: 2. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, YES CRUDE OIL released, $86,300 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: 20090357.

Operator ID: 30829.

Reported incident date: 12/18/2009.

Cause detail: CORROSION, INTERNAL

Cause detail: PUMPER REPORTED SPILL ON C-14 LINE TO OKC OCC. LOCAL PERSONNEL FOUND OIL ON THE GROUND SURFACE. THE LINE WAS ISOLATED AND MANAGER WAS NOTIFIED. REPAIR CREW WAS DISPATCHED AS WELL AS A VACUUM TRUCK. TWO BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL WERE RECOVERED. THE LINE WAS EXCAVATED AND REPAIRED USING A PLIDCO CLAMP. LINE WAS REACTIVATED AND PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE @ 8:00 PM DECEMBER 18, 2009. SIZE OF FAILURE WAS 1/4" DIAMETER. RESULT OF THE STORK ANALYSIS OF THE PIPE RESULTED AS: THE PIPE SAMPLE EXHIBITED A THROUGH-WALL CORROSION PIT IN A LOCALIZED GROUP OF PITS ON THE INSIDE SURFACE.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $86,300 reported total cost, $47,630.944 in 1984 dollars, $117,300.356 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.
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