CENTURION PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-08-02

Hazardous liquid incident in Not Within a Municipality, YOAKUM County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 321 CRUDE OIL released, $26,589 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: 20150313.

Operator ID: 31888.

Reported incident date: 8/2/2015 7:55.

Location detail: WASSON STA.

Cause detail: OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE

Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 08: 15 A.M. (CENTRAL TIME) ON AUGUST 2, 2015, A CENTURION EMPLOYEE OBSERVED THAT TANK NO. 6830 AT THE WASSON STATION WAS LEAKING FROM THE MIXER. WITH ASSISTANCE FROM THE REGION MANAGER, A VACUUM TRUCK WAS USED TO COLLECT SPILLED OIL. AND THE TANK WAS PUMPED OUT TO LOWER THE OIL LEVEL IN THE TANK AND ALL INCOMING FLOW OF OIL WAS BLOCKED FROM ARTESIA, NM. COMMUNICATION WITH HOUSTON CONTROL ROOM AND CENTURION'S ASSET INTEGRITY DEPARTMENT WAS INITIATED. THE VOLUME SPILLED INSIDE THE TANK DIKE WAS MEASURED AND FOUND TO BE ABOUT 314 BARRELS AT 10:30 A.M., SO THE SPILL WAS REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER BY CUTTY CUNNINGHAM AT 10:30 AM (CENTRAL TIME). AT 13:30 P.M. AUGUST 4, 2015, THE MIXER FOR TANK NO. 6830 WAS REPLACED AND REFILLING THE TANK WAS COMMENCED WITH INCOMING CRUDE FROM ARTESIA, NM

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $62,457 reported total cost, $31,332.605 in 1984 dollars, $77,162.563 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.