"PANTHER OPERATING COMPANY, LLC"

Incident Narrative

"ON JANUARY 27, 2025, AT APPROXIMATELY 11:00 AM, OPERATIONAL PERSONNEL CONDUCTING ROUTINE FACILITY CHECKS AND MAINTENANCE ON PLATFORM MP69 OBSERVED A CRUDE OIL LEAK FROM A PINHOLE IN THE 6' METER 1 PIPING. THE CREW IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED THE CONTROL CENTER, WHICH RE-ROUTED THE PRODUCT TO AN ALTERNATE METER RUN. BY 11:04 AM, THE CREW HAD ISOLATED THE AFFECTED PIPE BY CLOSING THE UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM METER VALVES. AN ESTIMATED 20.32 GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL WAS RELEASED, IMPACTING BOTH THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE PLATFORM. ES&H CONSULTING SERVICES, INC. (ES&H) WAS CONTRACTED TO RECOVER THE RELEASED PRODUCT FROM THE WATER AND CONDUCT CLEANUP OPERATIONS ON THE PLATFORM. ES&H DEPLOYED ABSORBENT BOOM ALONG THE ROCK JETTIES NEAR MAIN PASS 69 AND USED ABSORBENT PADS TO WIPE DOWN THE PLATFORM. FOREFRONT WAS CONTRACTED TO PERFORM AN AERIAL SURVEY OF THE INCIDENT SITE AND THE SURROUNDING GULF OF MEXICO, AND TO OVERSEE THE CLEAN-UP. THE AERIAL SURVEY INDICATED THAT THE SHEEN CREATED BY THE RELEASE EXTENDED APPROXIMATELY 3.38 MILES IN A SOUTH/SOUTHEAST DIRECTION. THE SHEEN PREDOMINANTLY MEASURED BETWEEN 1 TO 2 FEET IN WIDTH. OBSERVATIONS CATEGORIZED THE SHEEN AS APPROXIMATELY 30% EMULSIFIED, 10% RAINBOW, AND 60% SILVER. USING THE SHEEN CALCULATOR FROM PANTHER'S REGIONAL OIL SPILL RESPONSE PLAN, THE ESTIMATED VOLUME OF THE SHEEN WAS APPROXIMATELY 0.32 GALLONS. VISUAL ESTIMATES NEAR THE PLATFORM INDICATED APPROXIMATELY 20 GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL. HIGH-VOLUME, LOW-PRESSURE WASH PUMPS WERE USED TO FLUSH THE AFFECTED ROCK JETTIES, AND ALL ABSORBENT BOOM DEPLOYED ON JANUARY 27 WAS REMOVED AFTER NO FURTHER SHEENING OR EMULSIFIED OIL WAS DETECTED. IN TOTAL, APPROXIMATELY 9.6 GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL WERE RECOVERED ALONG WITH 16 BALES OF ABSORBENT BOOM. ES&H COMPLETED CLEANUP OPERATIONS ON JANUARY 28, 2025. ON FEBRUARY 3, 2025, THE 10-FOOT SECTION OF SPOOL PIECE PIPING THAT WAS AFFECTED BY THE PINHOLE LEAK WAS REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH A NEW 10-FOOT SECTION OF SPOOL PIECE PIPING WITH THE SAME SPECIFICATIONS. THE NEW SPOOL PIECE WAS HYDROTESTED PRIOR TO INSTALLATION."