PHMSA Report 20220050
PHMSA Report 20220050
Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in Not Within a Municipality, REAGAN County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 CRUDE OIL released, $20 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: 20220050.
Operator ID: 39183.
Reported incident date: 5/18/2022 9:30.
Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE
Cause detail: SUPPLEMENT - 2024-03-05: THE APPARENT CAUSE SUB-CAUSE FOR E6 IS BEING CHANGED TO "NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE." AT APPROXIMATELY 09:30 ON MAY 18, 2022, A FACILITY OPERATOR DISCOVERED AN ACTIVE SPRAY OF OIL COMING FROM THE ADAMS PIPELINE LAUNCHER (WRG-1000-180-G) DURING NORMAL ROUNDS AND IMMEDIATELY ISOLATED THE PIG TRAP LAUNCHER TO STOP THE LEAK. OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT WAS IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED, AND AFTER A SITE INVESTIGATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT APPROXIMATELY 1 BARREL OF CRUDE OIL WAS RELEASED TO THE GROUND AS A RESULT OF AN O-RING FAILURE. THE O-RING WAS REPLACED, AND THE PIG TRAP LAUNCHER RESUMED NORMAL OPERATIONS AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 ON MAY 18, 2022. MEDALLION OPERATIONS TEAM REMEDIATED THE IMPACTED SOIL.
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