CENTURION PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2024-05-22

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in GOLDSMITH, ECTOR County, TX. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 20 CRUDE OIL released, $7,540 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: 20240051.

Operator ID: 31888.

Reported incident date: 5/22/2024 10:17.

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY OPERATOR'S CONTRACTOR (SECOND PARTY)

Cause detail: ON 5/22/24 AT 10:17, A SECOND PARTY CONTRACTOR WAS PERFORMING ROW MAINTENANCE FOR A NEARBY PIPELINE (ALSO OWNED BY THE COMPANY) WHEN THE BLADE OF THEIR BULLDOZER CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE ECTOR WEST SEGMENT (WFA) 6" LINE. THE PIPELINE WAS GOUGED AND BENT, RESULTING IN THE RELEASE OF CRUDE OIL. OPERATIONS IMMEDIATELY SHUT-IN OXY FAY & TEXLAND HOLT LACT UNITS TO STOP THE RELEASE. THE LINE WAS PROPERLY SPOTTED AND MARKED. APPROXIMATELY 20 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL WAS RELEASED TO THE SOIL. A CONTRACTOR CREW CLEANED UP PRODUCT AND REMOVED CONTAMINATED SOIL. THE DAMAGED SECTION WAS CUTOUT AND TWO JOINTS WERE REPLACED. THE LINE WAS RESTARTED ON 5/23/24. TO PREVENT REOCCURRENCE, SECOND PARTY CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEES WERE REMOVED FROM THE PROJECT.