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PHMSA Report 20220059
ENERGY TRANSFER COMPANY — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2022-06-05
Current as of 2022-06-05 Government source
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Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in MIDLAND, MIDLAND County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.7 CRUDE OIL released, $1,800 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: 20220059.
Operator ID: 32099.
Reported incident date: 6/5/2022 10:00.
Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT
Cause detail: ON 6/5/22 AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00, THE CONTROL CENTER NOTIFIED A MEASUREMENT TECH ABOUT A LOCAL STATION LOCKOUT ALARM AT SHACKLEFORD LACT 2. UPON ARRIVAL, OPERATIONS DISCOVERED OIL ON THE LACT SKID AND GROUND. APPROXIMATELY 30 GALLONS OF CRUDE WAS RELEASED AND CLEANED UP. THE CAUSE OF RELEASE WAS THE LACT DISCHARGE CHECK VALVE FAILURE ALLOWING PIPELINE PRESSURE UPSTREAM OF CHECK VALVE TRIGGERING THE PRV TO RELEASE INTO CONTAINMENT, OVERFILLING THE CONTAINMENT. LACT 2 WAS ISOLATED AND LOCKED OUT OF SERVICE, AND CHECK VALVE REPLACED.
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