ENERGY TRANSFER COMPANY — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2021-01-26

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in JAL, LEA County, NM. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3 CRUDE OIL released, $25,000 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: 20210006.

Operator ID: 32099.

Reported incident date: 1/26/2021 11:38.

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON JANUARY 26, 2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 11:20 AT THE LEA STATION, A COMPANY EMPLOYEE NOTICED A RELEASE DURING HIS DAILY CHECKS. AT 11:38 THE SPILL WAS CONFIRMED THAT CRUDE OIL WAS LEAKING FROM THE CG105 CIMAREX TRUNKLINE 8 INCH (NON-REGULATED GATHERING LINE) ON THE SHURVESA GATHERING SYSTEM. THE CONTROL CENTER SHUT DOWN ALL LACT UNITS ON THE SHURVESA SYSTEM. A THIRD PARTY WAS CALLED IN TO PICK UP ALL FREE PRODUCT AND THE SOIL WAS REMEDIATED. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT INTERNAL CORROSION CAUSED THE LEAK AT THE 5:30 POSITION ON THE PIPE BODY. A PLIDCO CLAMP WAS INSTALLED ON THE AFFECTED PORTION OF THE PIPE. TO PREVENT FUTURE SPILLS, SAMPLING OF THE PRODUCT, INCREASE PIG RUNS AND ADDING ADDITIONAL CORROSION MONITORING WILL BE IMPLEMENTED. ON JANUARY 27, 2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 18:31 THE CONTROL CENTER STARTED THE LINE BACK UP AND BRING THE LACT UNITS BACK ONLINE SLOWLY. THE PLIDCO CLAMP WAS MONITORED THROUGH THE NIGHT TO ENSURE INTEGRITY OF THE CLAMP.