CENTURION PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2019-09-12

Hazardous liquid incident in Not Within a Municipality, ECTOR County, TX. Reported cause: INCORRECT OPERATION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 20 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: 20190306.

Operator ID: 31888.

Reported incident date: 9/12/2019 18:20.

Location detail: TANK 1591

Cause detail: EQUIPMENT NOT INSTALLED PROPERLY

Cause detail: ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2019, CENTURION PIPELINE L.P. WAS PUTTING TANK 1591 AT ECTOR STATION, IN ECTOR COUNTY, TEXAS, BACK INTO SERVICE AFTER AN API RP 653 INSPECTION. A CPL EMPLOYEE NOTICED A LEAK OUT OF THE TANK DURING THE FILLING OPERATION. APPROXIMATELY 20 BARRELS OF OIL WERE RELEASED ALL OF WHICH WERE RECOVERED. 14 BARRELS WERE RECOVERED IN LIQUID FORM WITH 6 BARRELS IN SOIL REMEDIATED ON SITE. ALL REMEDIATION IS COMPLETE AND ALL PRODUCT IS REMOVED FROM THE ENVIRONMENT. THE ROOT CAUSE WAS DETERMINED TO BE FAILURE TO RECONNECT AN RTD ON THE TANK SHELL. A TEMPORARY PLUG WAS INSTALLED WHILE THE TANK WAS DRAINED AND THE RTD WAS CONNECTED PRIOR TO FILLING THE TANK. SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL REPORT FILED ON JANUARY 13, 2020: PART B4 UPDATED FROM "GARDENDALE" TO "NOT WITHIN A MUNICIPALITY."

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: INCORRECT OPERATION — INCORRECT INSTALLATION.

PHMSA indexed costs: $11,500 reported total cost, $5,388.355 in 1984 dollars, $13,269.86 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.