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PHMSA Report 20120294
ENTERPRISE CRUDE PIPELINE LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2012-09-16
Current as of 2012-09-16 Government source
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Hazardous liquid incident in TEXAS CITY, GALVESTON County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 40 CRUDE OIL released, $20,000 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: 20120294.
Operator ID: 30829.
Reported incident date: 9/16/2012 18:30.
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: A LEAK WAS DISCOVERED BY OPERATIONS PERSONNEL MAKING ROUNDS. THE LEAK WAS ON METER SKID 24 INCH PIPING BETWEEN MOV 54 AND THE RECIRCULATION LINE DOWNSTREAM OF THE METERS IN THE TEXAS CITY TANK FARM FACILITY. THE LEAK WAS A PINHOLE AT 6:00 POSITION. THE SECTION OF PIPING WAS DRAINED UP, ISOLATED, AND REPAIRED WITH PLIDCO REPAIR CLAMP. THIS LINE WAS REMOVED SEPTEMBER 2014. ENTERPRISE HAS AN ON-GOING AWARENESS OF POTENTIAL DEAD LEG SOURCES AND WORKS TOWARD MINIMIZING OCCURRENCES IN AREAS THAT MAY CAUSE CONCERN OF A POTENTIAL LEAK.
PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $154,000 reported total cost, $81,111.8 in 1984 dollars, $199,753.4 in current-year dollars.
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