PHILLIPS 66 PIPELINE LLC

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Incident Information

Report Date
OperatorPHILLIPS 66 PIPELINE LLC
Commodity—
Pipeline Typehazardous_liquid

Location

State
Coordinates33.65569, -98.62477

Cause

CauseCORROSION FAILURE
Subcause—

Casualties

Fatalities0
Injuries0

Costs

Property Damage
Lost Commodity
Public/Private Damage
Emergency Response
Environmental Remediation
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Incident Narrative

ON 2-4-2017, PHILLIPS 66 RECEIVED A CALL FROM A LANDOWNER REPORTING A CRUDE OIL RELEASE THAT HAD REACHED THE LITTLE WICHITA RIVER. PHILLIPS 66 PERSONNEL BEGAN MAKING NOTIFICATIONS AND HAD THE CONTROL CENTER SHUT DOWN THE PIPELINE IMMEDIATELY. THE RELEASE OCCURRED NEAR THE NORTH BANK OF THE RIVER AND MIGRATED INTO THE WATER. THE FAILED PIPE SEGMENT HAS BEEN REMOVED AND SENT FOR METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS. 2017-5-30 - UPDATED PART ""G"" BASED ON INFORMATION GATHERED FROM METALLURGICAL ANALYSIS REPORT RECEIVED 2017-5-1. 2017-8-28 UPDATED NARRATIVE PER TRRC REQUEST: AT APP. 09:34 ON FEB. 4TH, 2017, PHILLIPS 66 PIPELINE LLC (PHILLIPS) RECEIVED A CALL TO THE BARTLESVILLE CONTROL CENTER (BCC) FROM A LANDOWNER REPORTING A CRUDE OIL RELEASE AT THE LITTLE WICHITA RIVER (STATION PLUS ' 1011+31). THE BARTLESVILLE CONTROL CENTER IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN THE PIPELINE AT APP. 09:41 AND CONTACTED FIELD PERSONNEL TO RESPOND. PHILLIPS 66 FIELD PERSONNEL ARRIVED ONSITE AND CONFIRMED THE RELEASE AT APP. 09:56. UPON CONFIRMATION BY PHILLIPS PERSONNEL AT APP. 0956, PHILLIPS ENACTED EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROCEDURES AND THE PIPELINE WAS FURTHER ISOLATED MANUALLY BY CLOSING THE NEAREST DOWNSTREAM ISOLATION VALVE AT 1014+84 AND THE TWO IMMEDIATE UPSTREAM VALVES AT 1008+76 AND 976+00. OIL SPILL RECOVERY OPERATIONS WERE INITIATED AND CONTAINMENT BOOM WAS DEPLOYED AT APP. 11:30 ELIMINATING THE POSSIBILITY OF THE RELEASE TRAVELING ANY FURTHER DOWNSTREAM (LITTLE WICHITA RIVER WAS NOT FLOWING AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT). THE TOTAL IMPACTED AREA OF THE LITTLE WICHITA RIVER WAS APP. 1900FT. (APP 700FT TO THE EAST AND APP. 1200FT TO THE WEST) INITIAL VOLUME ESTIMATES WERE REPORTED AT >50BBLS AND LATER UPDATED TO 189 BBLS WITH FINAL CALCULATIONS. THE RELEASE SITE WAS ISOLATED AND CONTAINED LATE ON FEB. 4TH, 2017 AND CLEANUP EFFORTS BEGAN. THE NORTH SEGMENT OF NT-90 WAS SUCCESSFULLY HYDROSTATICALLY TESTED THE WEEK OF MARCH 13TH AND THE SOUTH SEGMENT OF NT-90 WAS SUCCESSFULLY HYDROSTATICALLY TESTED THE WEEK OF MARCH 22ND. THE RIVER CROSSING WAS REPLACED WITH NEW PIPE VIA HDD. NT-90 WAS PLACED BACK INTO SERVICE APRIL 5TH, 2017. 2017-8-28: UPDATED PART ""D"" UPON RECEIVING FINAL ASSOCIATED COST NUMBERS. 2017-9-19 - UPDATED PART ""C"", 3A FROM 8.625 TO 8 PER PHMSA REQUEST.

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