HOLLY ENERGY PARTNERS - OPERATING, L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2016-08-13

Hazardous liquid incident in ARTESIA, EDDY County, NM. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 10 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS 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: 20160292.

Operator ID: 32011.

Reported incident date: 8/13/2016 2:45.

Location detail: MP 0

Cause detail: PUMP OR PUMP-RELATED EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: AT 02:45 AM ON 08/13/16 A HEP CONTROLLER RECEIVED A SCADA HIGH SUMP AND VAPOR MONITOR ALARMS ON THE 4 CORNERS PUMP STATION, CONTACTED HEP I & E FOREMAN, AND SHUT DOWN AND ISOLATED THE STATION. SIMULTANEOUSLY ANOTHER CONTROLLER RECEIVED A CALL FROM A HFC EMPLOYEE MAKING HIS ROUNDS OF NOTICING A STRONG SMELL OF GASOLINE IN THE AREA OF THE 4 CORNERS PUMP STATION. HEP AND HFC PERSONNEL BOTH RESPONDED. IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT A SEAL ON UNIT 2 HAD FAILED, RELEASING ESTIMATED 10 BARRELS OF GASOLINE THAT WAS FLOATING ON RAIN WATER, WHICH HAD COLLECTED AT THE PUMP STATION FROM A THUNDERSTORM IN THE AREA. THE WATER AND FREE PRODUCT WERE PICKED UP BY VACUUM TRUCKS, AND PROPERLY DISPOSED OF. THE SEAL WAS REPLACED IN UNIT 2 WAS REPLACED, UNIT PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — PUMP/COMPRESSOR OR PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $10,500 reported total cost, $5,224.211 in 1984 dollars, $12,865.624 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.