COASTAL STATES CRUDE GATHERING CO — Hazardous liquid — incident on 1994-11-10

Hazardous liquid incident in TX. Reported cause: CORROSION. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 50 GASOLINE released, $30,000 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: 19950010.

Operator ID: 26023.

Reported incident date: 19941110.

Location detail: 1 MILE NORTH OF SOUTH BANK OF NUECES BAY

Cause detail: CORROSION, EXTERNAL

Cause detail: A SHEEN WAS SPOTTED ON NUECES BAY BY A KOCH PIPELINE PATROL PILOT. COASTALSTATES CRUDE GATHERING COMPANY PERSONNEL VERIFIED LEAK AND SHUT THE PIPELINEDOWN. THE LINE WAS PURGED OF PRODUCT WITH NITROGEN TO LOCATE LEAK AND BEGINREPAIRS. A SPLIT SLEEVE CLAMP WAS INSTALLED ON THE LINE. THE SHEEN WASOBSERVED TO HAVE DISSIPATED RAPIDLY. THERE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN NO DAMAGE TOTHE SHORELINE OR ANY OTHER MARINE HABITAT.

PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $30,000 reported total cost, $22,463.748 in 1984 dollars, $55,321.297 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.