KINDER MORGAN CRUDE AND CONDENSATE LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2014-10-12

Hazardous liquid incident in CUERO, DEWITT County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.48 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $13,785 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: 20140391.

Operator ID: 32678.

Reported incident date: 10/12/2014 11:58.

Cause detail: PUMP OR PUMP-RELATED EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: ON 10/12/14 AT APPROXIMATELY 11:58, THE KINDER MORGAN DEWITT PUMP STATION EXPERIENCED A RELEASE OF APPROXIMATELY .48 BARRELS OF CONDENSATE. DURING A ROUTINE STARTUP OF PUMP #307, THE SCADA OPERATOR RECEIVED A SEAL FAILURE ALARM. A FACILITY OPERATOR WHO WAS ALSO ON SITE DURING THE STARTUP NOTICED THE RELEASE AS WELL AND CALLED FOR A LINE SHUT DOWN. THE PUMP DID NOT START AND THE MAINLINE WAS IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN. THE SUCTION AND DISCHARGE VALVES WERE CLOSED TO ISOLATE THE PUMP, AND LOCAL MANAGEMENT WAS NOTIFIED. THE PRODUCT RELEASED WAS CAUGHT IN ENGINEERED CONTAINMENT AND ALL PRODUCT WAS RECOVERED VIA A VACUUM TRUCK AND THE UNIT AND THE CONTAINMENT WERE CLEANED. OUR INVESTIGATION DETERMINED THE RELEASE WAS A RESULT OF A PUMP SEAL FAILURE. THE REPAIR COST FOR THE SEALS IS APPROXIMATELY $13,785.00

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

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

PHMSA indexed costs: $14,474 reported total cost, $7,344.37 in 1984 dollars, $18,086.922 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.