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PHMSA Report 20150463
SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-11-18
Current as of 2015-11-18 Government source
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Hazardous liquid incident in RANGER, EASTLAND County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2 CRUDE OIL released, $5,000 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: 20150463.
Operator ID: 18718.
Reported incident date: 11/18/2015 13:00.
Location detail: 140.4
Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE
Cause detail: ON 11/18/2015 OPERATION PERSONNEL DISCOVERED A CRUDE OIL RELEASE OF APPROXIMATELY 2 BARRELS AT EASTLAND STATION. INVESTIGATION DETERMINED THAT THE RELEASE WAS FROM A STEM SEAL PACKING FAILURE ON A 24" 600# DHV BLOCK VALVE. THE AFFECTED VALVE WAS UNDER WARRANTY AND HAS BEEN REMOVED AND A NEW VALVE HAS BEEN INSTALLED. CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMEDIATED ONSITE.
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.
PHMSA indexed costs: $12,075 reported total cost, $6,057.627 in 1984 dollars, $14,918.071 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.
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