WEST COAST TERMINAL PIPELINE (WCTP)

Incident Narrative

AT 08:48 AM A TECHNICIAN DISCOVERED GASOLINE IN TANK 82'S WATER DRAW POT CONTAINMENT. BASED ON EARLY INVESTIGATION RESULTS, IT APPEARS THE WATER DRAW VALVE WAS LEFT OPEN, WHICH OVERFILLED THE WATER DRAW POT. THE AREA HAS BEEN ISOLATED, THE VALVE CREATING THE OVERFILL HAS BEEN CLOSED, AND A VACUUM TRUCK WAS DISPATCHED TO REMOVE THE CONTENTS FROM THE CONTAINMENT PAD. DURING THE RELEASE RESPONSE STAINED SOIL WAS DISCOVERED 50' AWAY FROM THE CONTAINMENT PAD. INITIALLY THERE WAS NO INDICATION OF STAINED ROCK OR SOIL MORE THAN A FEW INCHES AWAY FROM THE CONTAINMENT PAD. IT APPEARS PRODUCT OVERFILLED THE CONTAINMENT PAD AND MIGRATED UNDER THE SURFACE GRAVEL 50' AWAY FROM THE CONTAINMENT PAD. AFTER REVIEWING TANK TREND DATA AND CONDUCTING SOIL INVESTIGATION IT WAS DETERMINED 14 BBLS WAS RELEASED. COSTS ARE STILL BEING DETERMINED, AND THE MAOP WILL BE UPDATED WHEN THE REPORT IS FINALIZED. THE SOIL HAS BEEN MOVED INTO BINS AND THE CONTRACTOR ENSURES RULE 1166 WAS FOLLOWED FOR AIR COMPLIANCE. THE EMPLOYEE, THAT LEFT THE VALVE OPEN, OPERATOR QUALIFICATION (OQ) WAS REVOKED AND EMPLOYEE WAS RETRAINED AND REQUALIFIED.