GENESIS PIPELINE ALABAMA, LLC

Incident Narrative

ON 8/12/18 AT APPROXIMATELY 11:00, A COMPANY PERSONNEL FROM PRUITT (PRODUCTION COMPANY OPERATING LOCAL PRODUCTION FIELDS) RECOGNIZED A STRONG SMELL OF CRUDE OIL WHILE TRAVELING DIRT ROAD PARALLEL TO GENESIS ROW AT THE CASTLEBERRY PRODUCTION AREA. THE PRUITT PERSONNEL ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT GENESIS PERSONNEL HOWEVER, POOR CELL PHONE RECEPTION IN THE AREA PREVENTED ANY CONTACT. PRUITT PERSONNEL PROCEEDED TO CALL HIS SUPERVISOR WHICH IN TURN CALLED THE GENESIS PIPELINE MANAGER AT 12:32. GENESIS PIPELINE MANAGER ALERTED LOCAL GENESIS PERSONNEL AND PROCEEDED TO TRAVEL TO THE CASTLEBERRY PRODUCTION AREA. THE GENESIS PIPELINE MANAGER ARRIVED AT THE LOCATION OF THE RELEASE AT APPROXIMATELY 14:00 AND CONFIRMED THAT THE RELEASE WAS FROM THE GENESIS 8"" STEEP PIPELINE. THE RELEASE OCCURRED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE ROAD ON THE 8"" PIPELINE AND MIGRATED THROUGH A CULVERT TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE ROAD AIDED BY RECENT RAIN EVENT. THE CRUDE OIL TRAVELED APPROXIMATELY 350' THROUGH AN AREA CONTAINING TREES. INVESTIGATION DIGS WERE PERFORMED AROUND THE PIPELINE TO IDENTIFY THE SOURCE OF THE RELEASE. A 1/8 IN. HOLE ON THE PIPE BODY WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE SOURCE OF THE RELEASE. INTERNAL NOTIFICATION WAS MADE AT 15:20 TO WITT O'BRIENS - A 3RD PARTY CONTRACTOR USED BY GENESIS FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL NOTIFICATION. WITT O'BRIENS PROCEEDED TO NOTIFY GENESIS HSSE PERSONNEL, OSRO COMPANY AND THE NRC AS WELL AT 15:48. OSRO ARRIVED AT 16:05 AND BEGIN SPREADING ADSORBENT PADS TO SOAK UP CRUDE OIL. IN ADDITION, GENESIS PERSONNEL ERECTED A TEMPORARY DIKE AT THE FARTHEST POINT OF PRODUCT MIGRATION TO PREVENT FURTHER PRODUCT MOVEMENT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT. CLEAN-UP AND DIRT REMOVAL HAS CONTINUED FOR SEVERAL DAYS HOWEVER AT THE TIME OF THIS INITIAL REPORT, DUE TO SEVERAL RAIN EVENTS CLEAN-UP STILL CONTINUES. THE APPROXIMATE VOLUME OF THE RELEASED HAS BEEN ESTIMATED AT 65 BBLS. IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE THE CAUSE OF THE RELEASE, THE PIECE OF THE PIPE CONTAINING THE 1/8 IN. HOLE WAS CUT OUT ON 8/20 AND SHIPPED TO A LABORATORY FOR METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS. AT THE TIME OF THIS REPORT, GENESIS HAS NOT RECEIVED THE LAB RESULTS. AT THE TIME OF THIS REPORT, THE CAUSE OF THE 1/8 IN. HOLE ON THE PIPE, AND THEREBY THE CAUSE OF THE RELEASE, IS STILL UNDETERMINED PENDING THE RESULTS OF THE LAB ANALYSIS. SUPPLEMENTAL 11/13/18 - PART G CHANGED TO G1 - CORROSION FAILURE. PART D, QUESTION 8 UPDATED TO CURRENT ESTIMATES. PART G1, QUESTION 15A: A MFL/DEF ILI TOOL WAS ALSO RUN ON 11/15/14 WITH NO SIGNIFICANT RESULTS AT THE SPOT OF THE RELEASE. A MFL/DEF ILI TOOL WAS RUN AHEAD OF SCHEDULE ON 11/06/18 TO IDENTIFY IF OTHER AREAS OF METAL LOSS ARE PRESENT. A FAILURE ANALYSIS REPORT DATED 9/7/2018, CONCLUDED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE WAS MICROBIALLY INDUCED CORROSION, OR MIC. THE REPORT, HOWEVER COULD NOT IDENTIFY WHAT TYPE OF MIC, AEROBIC OR ANAEROBIC OR A MIXTURE, WAS THE CAUSE. A SEPARATE REPORT BY BAKER HUGHES CONCLUDED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE WAS MIC-SRB, SULFUR REDUCING BACTERIA. GENESIS ENERGY BEGIN A SERIES OF BIOCIDE TREATMENTS BETWEEN 8/16/18 AND 9/6/18 AS WELL AS AN ADDITIONAL TREATMENT ON 9/18/18. IN ADDITION, GENESIS CONTACTED THE CONNECTING PRODUCER AND CONVINCED THE PARTY TO TREAT THEIR SYSTEM WITH BIOCIDE. RESULTS ARE SHOWING SIGNIFICANT DROPS IN BIOLOGICAL LEVELS THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM.