ENTERPRISE CRUDE PIPELINE LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2018-11-18

Hazardous liquid incident in CUSHING, LINCOLN County, OK. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.24 CRUDE OIL released, $0 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: 20180383.

Operator ID: 30829.

Reported incident date: 11/18/2018 2:30.

Location detail: MOV-444

Cause detail: OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE

Cause detail: 11/18/2018 2:30A.M. OPERATOR AT THE CUSHING EAST TERMINAL IDENTIFIED OIL ON THE GROUND AND PIPING UNDER MOV-444 ON T-5 HEADER. UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION IT WAS FOUND THAT 1/2" TUBING LINE RELIEVING THE VALVE STEM HOUSING WAS PLUGGED. TUBING LINE WAS FLUSHED AND CLEANED. APPROXIMATELY 10 GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL WAS RELEASED. NO WATERWAYS THREATENED OR IMPACTED. ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS CAUSED BY EQUIPMENT FAILURE ARE TRENDED AND TRACKED IN OUR OPERATIONAL CONTAINMENT PROGRAM.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $5,015 reported total cost, $2,395.611 in 1984 dollars, $5,899.652 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.