PLAINS PIPELINE, L.P. — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2023-10-18

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in JAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS, LEA County, NM. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 7.7 CRUDE OIL released, $28,000 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: 20230094.

Operator ID: 300.

Reported incident date: 10/18/2023 20:00.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: APPROXIMATELY 7.7 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL WERE RELEASED FROM THE SEGMENT 2 RED HILLS INTERCONNECT 8INCH PIPELINE. THE DATE AND TIME OF THE RELEASE (PART A Q4) IS INDICATIVE OF THE EARLIEST DATE/TIME THE RELEASE COULD HAVE STARTED BASED ON THE LAST TIME THE STATION HAD BEEN VISITED. TO STOP THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE A CLAMP WAS INSTALLED. TO PREVENT FUTURE INCIDENTS, PLAINS CUT-OUT AND REPLACED THE FAILED SECTION. A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT WILL BE SUBMITTED PENDING FURTHER INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSE OF THE RELEASE. SUPPLEMENTAL: THE CAUSE OF THE RELEASE IS ATTRIBUTED TO INTERNAL CORROSION. ON 10/18/2023, THERE WAS NO MAINTENANCE PERFORMED ON THE PIPELINE THAT HAD THE RELEASE; THE TIME IS REFLECTIVE OF WHEN THE OPERATOR LEFT THE STATION AND CONFIRMED THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF A RELEASE.