ENERGY TRANSFER COMPANY — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2022-03-10

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in Not Within a Municipality, LEA County, NM. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 22.7 CRUDE OIL 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: 20220026.

Operator ID: 32099.

Reported incident date: 3/10/2022 9:30.

Cause detail: THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE

Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 0930 ON MARCH 10, 2022, A COMPANY EMPLOYEE NOTICED CRUDE OIL ESCAPING FROM A STEEL BRAIDED, CHEMICAL HOSE THAT WAS ATTACHED TO A FITTING ABOVE THE VALVE ON THE PIPELINE SIDE OF THE LAUNCHER AT THE SHURVESA 8-INCH INTERCONNECT STATION. APPROXIMATELY 22.7 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL WAS RELEASED TO THE GROUND AROUND THE LAUNCHER. THE VALVE WAS CLOSED, WHICH STOPPED THE PRODUCT FROM LEAKING ONTO THE GROUND. ALL CONTAMINATED SOIL HAS BEEN COLLECTED AND SOIL REMEDIATION WILL BE COMPLETED. TO PREVENT THIS EVENT FROM OCCURRING AGAIN, ALL STEEL BRAIDED FLEXIBLE INJECTION HOSES ARE GOING TO BE REMOVED AT THE FACILITY AND REPLACED WITH STAINLESS STEEL TUBING AND WILL BE HARD PLUMBED TO THE PIPE.