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PHMSA Report 20220113
TARGA PIPELINE MID-CONTINENT WESTTEX LLC — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2022-11-18
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Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in Not Within a Municipality, HOWARD County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER ACCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2 CRUDE OIL released, $0 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: 20220113.
Operator ID: 22465.
Reported incident date: 11/18/2022 14:00.
Cause detail: UNKNOWN
Cause detail: AT AROUND 2 PM OPERATIONS PERSONNEL WERE CONTACTED BY A 3RD PARTY WELL OPERATOR NOTIFYING US THAT OIL HAD SPILLED ON THE GROUND FROM A LACT UNIT SKID. UPON ARRIVAL TARGA EMPLOYEE FOUND THAT OIL HAD FILLED THE LACT SKID CONTAINMENT AND RAN ONTO THE GROUND. HE THEN CONTACTED HIS SUPERVISOR AND VERIFIED IT WAS OUR LEAK AND BEGAN REMEDIATION EFFORTS. DURING THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CAUSE OF THE LEAK BY THE RESPONDING EMPLOYEE THERE WAS NO LEAKING OR MALFUNCTIONING EQUIPMENT FOUND. THE EQUIPMENT WAS PUT BACK INTO SERVICE AROUND 4 PM THE SAME DAY. THERE HAS BEEN NO LEAK SINCE. THE CAUSE OF THE LEAK IS UNKNOWN. TO ELIMINATE POSSIBLE CAUSE AND MITIGATE FUTURE OCCURRENCES STEEL BRAIDED CAR SEALS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED ON ALL EQUIPMENT DRAIN VALVES. OPERATIONS PERSONNEL ARE PERIODICALLY CHECKING LACT UNIT WEEKLY TO ENSURE PROPER OPERATION.
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