# SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-09-01

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20150351
- **title:** SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-09-01
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2015-10-01
- **effective on:** 2015-09-01
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in CORSICANA, NAVARRO County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 CRUDE OIL released, $1,000 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. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
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Hazardous liquid incident in CORSICANA, NAVARRO County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 CRUDE OIL released, $1,000 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: 20150351.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 9/1/2015 6:35.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON 9/1/2015 LOCAL OPERATIONS PERSONNEL DISCOVERED OIL ON A GRAVEL FACILITY ROAD WITHIN THE CORSICANA TANK FARM. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE RELEASE OCCURRED DUE TO INTERNAL CORROSION ON SECTION OF DEADLEG PIPING. THE PIPING HAD BEEN DRAINED, CAPPED AND PLACED UNDER A NITROGEN BLANKET SUBSEQUENT TO THE LINE BEING REMOVED FROM SERVICE HOWEVER A SMALL AMOUNT OF RESIDUAL PRODUCT WAS TRAPPED IN THE LOW POINT OF THE PIPING. THE AFFECTED PIPING WAS REMOVED SUBSEQUENT TO THE RELEASE ON 9/1/15. CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMEDIATED ON-SITE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $5,045 reported total cost, $2,530.909 in 1984 dollars, $6,232.85 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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