PLAINS PIPELINE, L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2023-01-19

Hazardous liquid incident in MIDLAND, MIDLAND County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3.4 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: 20230038.

Operator ID: 300.

Reported incident date: 1/19/2023 6:00.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE

Cause detail: APPROXIMATELY 3.4 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL WERE RELEASED FROM THE WINK 24" INCOMING SAMPLER AT MIDLAND BASIN STATION. THE DATE AND TIME OF THE RELEASE (PART A Q4) IS INDICATIVE OF THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME THE RELEASE COULD HAVE STARTED AS IT WAS THE LAST TIME THE INCIDENT LOCATION HAD BEEN VISITED AND CONFIRMED TO BE NO RELEASE OF CRUDE OIL. THE CAUSE OF THE RELEASE IS ATTRIBUTED TO EQUIPMENT FAILURE OF THE PIPE NIPPLE WHEN VIBRATION LED TO THE STATIC MIXER FAN BLADES FAILING, DAMAGING THE NIPPLE CONNECTION TO THE SAMPLE PROBE. TO PREVENT FUTURE RELEASES, THE STATIC MIXER WAS REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH A FLANGED PIECE OF PIPE. SUPPLEMENTAL: UPDATES APPLIED TO PART B AND PART G.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $30,187 reported total cost, $12,754.286 in 1984 dollars, $31,409.881 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.