VALERO LOGISTICS OPERATIONS, L.P — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2004-08-05

Hazardous liquid incident in TUCUMCARI, QUAY County, NM. Reported cause: 20. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, YES JET FUEL released, $22,530 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: 20040257.

Operator ID: 31454.

Reported incident date: 8/5/2004.

Cause detail: MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT

Cause detail: ON AUGUST 5, 2004, AT APPROXIMATELY 1000 HOURS, JET TURBINE FUEL WAS OBSERVED LEAKING FROM A SUMP AT TUCUMCARI PUMP STATION BY COMPANY PERSONNEL. INTERNAL NOTIFICATIONS WERE MADE TO MANAGEMENT, PIPELINE CONTROL, AND PIPELINE SAFETY, THEN THE NRC WAS CALLED AT 11:23 HOURS. FREE PRODUCT WAS RECOVERED AND CLEAN UP OF CONTAMINATED SOIL AND REMEDIATION ACTIVITIES WERE BEGUN IMMEDIATELY. THERE ARE NO LONG TERM ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT ISSUES TO BE CONSIDERED. UPON INVESTIGATION, IT WAS LEARNED THAT THE THERMAL RELIEF VALVE FAILED, AND IN TURN, THE HIGH LEVEL ALARM ON THE SUMP ALSO FAILED LEADING TO AN OVERFLOW. AFTER REVIEW BY ENGINEERING, THE THERMAL RELIEF VALVE WAS REMOVED FROM THE SYSTEM PIPING AND A NEW TYPE SUMP LEVEL ALARM WAS INSTALLED AND TESTED. THE SYSTEM HAS RUN SATISFACTORILY TO DATE WITH NO PROBLEMS. 4/20/2010 -- REPORT UPDATED PER RESULTS OF LEAK REVIEW SPRING 2010. NO CHANGE IN CAUSE.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — MALFUNCTION OF CONTROL/RELIEF EQUIPMENT.

PHMSA indexed costs: $22,530 reported total cost, $14,016.715 in 1984 dollars, $34,518.855 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.