# SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-10-28

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- **citation:** PHMSA Report 20150424
- **title:** SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-10-28
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2015-11-24
- **effective on:** 2015-10-28
- **summary:** Hazardous liquid incident in NOME, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2 CRUDE OIL released, $10,000 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. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.
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Hazardous liquid incident in NOME, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2 CRUDE OIL released, $10,000 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: 20150424.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 10/28/2015 13:24.

Location detail: 238+67.9

Cause detail: INTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON 10/28/2015 THE CONTROL CENTER WAS NOTIFIED BY THE PUBLIC OF A PETROLEUM ODOR AND APPARENT CRUDE OIL ON WATER IN AN UNNAMED DITCH. THE LINE WAS IMMEDIATELY SHUTDOWN AND PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED TO THE AREA. AS AN IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE BOOM WAS DEPLOYED IN THE UNNAMED DITCH TO PREVENT THE POSSIBILITY OF CONTAMINATION OF THE DOWNSTREAM WATERWAY. THE AFFECTED SEGMENT OF THE NOME TO DANIEL'S JCT. 4' WAS ISOLATED BY CLOSING MAIN LINE BLOCK VALVES AND THE RELEASE POINT WAS LOCATED AND CONFIRMED. TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION TO THE NRC WAS MADE AT 15:07 (REPORT NO. 1131943) AND THE TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSION-PIPELINE SAFETY WAS TELEPHONICALLY NOTIFIED AT 15:20 (INCIDENT ID: 1269). EXCAVATION OF THE LINE SEGMENT REVEALED A PINHOLE IN THE PIPE DUE TO INTERNAL CORROSION. A MECHANICAL CLAMP WAS INSTALLED. CRUDE OIL WAS RECOVERED VIA VACUUM TRUCK FROM SURFACE WATER IN THE UNNAMED DITCH AND CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMOVED FOR PROPER OFF-SITE DISPOSAL. THE LINE SEGMENT WAS RESTARTED ON 11/18/2015 TO RUN AN ACOUSTIC LEAK DETECTION DEVICE. AFTER COMPLETION OF THE ACOUSTIC LEAK DETECTION DEVICE RUN THE LINE WAS SHUTDOWN AGAIN. SUBSEQUENT TO THE RESULTS OF THE ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS THE AFFECTED PIPING WAS REMOVED AND NEW PIPING WAS INSTALLED AND THE LINE WAS RESTARTED ON 12/12/15.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — INTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $274,836 reported total cost, $137,876.104 in 1984 dollars, $339,546.41 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.
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