ENERGY TRANSFER COMPANY — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2022-06-26

Hazardous liquid incident in PECOS, REEVES County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3.8 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: 20220154.

Operator ID: 32099.

Reported incident date: 6/26/2022 8:20.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: ON 6/26/22 AT 07:21, HOUSTON CONTROL CENTER NOTIFIED AN OPERATION TECH ABOUT A RELEASE AT ADVANTAGE LACT UNIT DELIVERY. THE SYSTEM WAS SHUTDOWN AND OPERATIONS PERSONNEL DISPATCHED TO THE STATION. AT 08:20, OPERATION TECH ARRIVED ON SITE AND CONFIRMED A RELEASE OF 3.8 BBLS ONTO THE GROUND FROM A SUMP OVERFILL. THE CAUSE OF RELEASE WAS DETERMINED TO BE A FAILED DIAPHRAGM ON THE BACK PRESSURE VALVE AT THE LACT UNIT. WHEN THE DIAPHRAGM FAILED IT CAUSED THE RELIEF SYSTEM TO ACTIVATE WHICH IS PIPED TO THE SUMP. THE SUMP COULD NOT KEEP UP WITH THE VOLUME BEING RELIVED WHICH LED TO THE SUMP TO OVERFILL. THE LACT UNIT WAS ISOLATED AND THE RUPTURED DIAPHRAGM ON THE BACK PRESSURE VALVE WAS REPLACED. THE SUMP LEVEL ALARM WAS ALSO PROGRAMMED TO ALARM IN THE REMOTE CONTROL CENTER WHICH WILL ALLOW THE CONTROLLER TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTIONS TO EMPTY SUMP AND/OR SHUT DOWN INCOMING LACT UNITS IN ORDER TO PREVENT A REOCCURRENCE OF THE SAME OR SIMILAR EVENT TO THAT WHICH OCCURRED ON 6/26/22. .

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $29,437 reported total cost, $12,708.58 in 1984 dollars, $31,297.322 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.