PHMSA Report 20150421
PHMSA Report 20150421
Hazardous liquid incident in NOME, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 0.5 CRUDE OIL released, $3,000 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: 20150421.
Operator ID: 18718.
Reported incident date: 10/27/2015 14:30.
Location detail: 0+00
Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION
Cause detail: ON 10/27/2015 LOCAL PERSONNEL DISCOVERED A CRUDE OIL RELEASE OF APPROXIMATELY 1/2 BARREL AROUND THE NOME STATION SCRAPER TRAP. THE LINE SEGMENT WAS SHUT DOWN AND EXCAVATION OF THE DRAIN LINE FROM THE SCRAPER TRAP REVEALED A PINHOLE IN THE PIPING. THE PIPING WAS REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH NEW PIPING. THE CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMEDIATED ON SITE. TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION TO THE TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSION-PIPELINE SAFETY WAS MADE AT 16:30, INCIDENT ID: 1267
PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.
PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.
PHMSA indexed costs: $3,000 reported total cost, $1,505 in 1984 dollars, $3,706.353 in current-year dollars.
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