BRIDGER PIPELINE LLC — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2022-05-15

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in Not Within a Municipality, MCKENZIE COUNTY County, ND. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2 CRUDE OIL released, $500 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: 20220051.

Operator ID: 31878.

Reported incident date: 5/15/2022 13:30.

Cause detail: PUMP OR PUMP-RELATED EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 2:00 PM ON MAY 15TH, A COMPANY EMPLOYEE (GAUGER) WAS CHECKING ON OUR SHIPPING PUMPS AND NOTICED A 2 BARREL RELEASE AT THE WELL SITE IN QUESTION. THE SEAL ON THE PUMP HAD FAILED, AND THE HOSE CONNECTED TO THE SUMP WAS LEAKING. COMPANY PERSONNEL SHUT DOWN AND ISOLATED THE EQUIPMENT AND NOTIFIED THE FIELD SUPERVISOR. ALL RELEASED CRUDE WAS CONTAINED ON COMPANY PROPERTY; HOWEVER, REMOVAL/REPLACEMENT OF CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS UNDERTAKEN AND COMPLETED ON THE MORNING OF MAY 16TH. THE CONTAMINATED SOIL/GRAVEL WAS DISPOSED OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH NDDEQ REQUIREMENTS. THE SEAL AND HOSE ON THE PUMP WERE REPAIRED AND NORMAL OPERATIONS WERE RESUMED LATER THAT DAY. NO WILDLIFE, SURFACE WATER, OR GROUND WATER WAS IMPACTED BY THE RELEASE. SINCE THE RELEASE DID NOT MEET STATE OR NRC REPORTING REQUIREMENTS, NO ADDITIONAL NOTIFICATIONS WERE MADE.