PLANTATION PIPE LINE CO

Incident Narrative

ON 12/8/2014 AT 4:05PM, PLANTATION PIPE LINE'S CONTROL CENTER RECEIVED A CALL FROM A COLONIAL PIPELINE PERSONNEL REPORTING A PETROLEUM ODOR AND DEAD VEGETATION ON PLANTATION'S RIGHT OF WAY. THE PIPELINE WAS SHUTDOWN AT 14:08 IMMEDIATELY AFTER RECEIVING THE CALL FROM THE COLONIAL PIPELINE EMPLOYEE. AFTER INITIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PIPELINE RIGHT OF WAY AREA, A ""THREATENED RELEASE"" WAS CALLED INTO THE NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER (NRC) AT 6:15PM. THE NRC REPORT NUMBER FOR THIS CALL WAS 1102947. AFTER THE PIPELINE WAS EXCAVATED AND EXPOSED LATER THAT EVENING, GASOLINE WAS DISCOVERED COMING FROM A 4 FOOT TYPE ""A"" SLEEVE, WHICH HAD BEEN INSTALLED ON PLANTATION'S 26-INCH PIPELINE OVER A DEFORMATION IN 1990. THE NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER (NRC) WAS CALLED AGAIN AFTER THE PIPELINE RELEASE WAS CONFIRMED. THE ADDITIONAL NRC REPORT NUMBER IS 1102954. ON 1/20/2015, THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED OF IMPACT TO A NEARBY STREAM. THE NRC REPORT NUMBER FOR THE 1/20/15 NOTIFICATION IS 1106174. ON 2/17/2015, THE NRC WAS NOTIFIED REGARDING THE RELEASE VOLUME OF 8800 BBLS. THE NRC REPORT NUMBER FOR THE 2/17/15 NOTIFICATION IS 1108354. THE CAUSE FOR THE DEFORMATION FAILURE UNDER THE TYPE ""A"" SLEEVE IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. INVESTIGATION RESULTS-THE TYPE ""A"" SLEEVE WAS INSTALLED IN 1990 OVER A DENT AND DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH FILLER MATERIAL BETWEEN THE SLEEVE AND PIPE TO COMPLETELY FILL THE DENT. THE UNRESTRAINED DENT DEVELOPED A LONGITUDINAL CRACK ON THE OUTSIDE SURFACE OF THE PIPE IN THE SHOULDER OF THE DENT. NOTE: I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING ERROR MESSAGE WHEN TRYING TO SUBMIT THE REPORT. ""PART A: QUESTION 14.A - LOCAL TIME AND DATE OF SHUTDOWN SHOULD BE LATER THAN OR EQUAL TO QUESTION 4 - LOCAL TIME (24-HR CLOCK) AND DATE OF THE INCIDENT"". I HAVE NOT GOTTEN THIS ERROR MESSAGE BEFORE. THE PIPELINE WAS SHUTDOWN AT 14:08 IMMEDIATELY AFTER RECEIVING THE CALL FROM THE COLONIAL PIPELINE EMPLOYEE. THE DETERMINATION THAT THE RELEASE WAS REPORTABLE WAS MADE AFTER THE PIPELINE WAS SHUTDOWN. SO TO SUBMIT THIS REPORT, I'VE PUT IN A TIME EQUAL TO 14A.THE CORRECT DATE AND TIME FOR QUESTION 4 IS 12/8/2014 AND 19:50.