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PHMSA Report 20230049
IRONWOOD MIDSTREAM ENERGY PARTNERS, LLC — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2023-05-10
Current as of 2023-05-10 Government source
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Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in Not Within a Municipality, DIMMIT COUNTY County, TX. Reported cause: INCORRECT OPERATION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.23 CRUDE OIL released, $3,500 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: 20230049.
Operator ID: 39649.
Reported incident date: 5/10/2023 7:00.
Cause detail: OTHER INCORRECT OPERATION
Cause detail: ON MAY 10, 2023, AT APPROXIMATELY 7:00 AM, A THIRD-PARTY PRODUCER WAS PROVING THEIR TRUCK OFFLOAD LACT, THIS LACT IS FED BY THE SAME PIPING MANIFOLD AS IRONWOOD'S LACT CAUSING A LACK OF CRUDE AVAILABLE FOR IRONWOOD'S LACT AND ULTIMATELY CAUSED A SEAL FAILURE ON IRONWOOD'S PUMP. IRONWOOD OPERATIONS ARRIVED AND THE PUMP WAS SHUT DOWN STOPPING THE LEAK AT APPROXIMATELY 7:30 AM. THE ESTIMATED RELEASE VOLUME IS 9.66 GALLONS, .23 BARREL, THE SPILL WAS CLEANED UP PROMPTLY THE SAME DAY. THERE WERE NO INJURIES, EVACUATIONS, OR FIRE AS A RESULT OF THE RELEASE. TO PREVENT RE-OCCURRENCE, IRONWOOD LACTS WILL NOT BE OPERATED WHILE A THIRD-PARTY OPERATOR IS PROVING FROM THE SAME PIPING MANIFOLD. CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR WILL VERIFY THE PROVING HAS BEEN COMPLETE PRIOR TO STARTING THE LACT.
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