JAYHAWK PIPELINE LLC

Incident Narrative

AT 1:50 PM ON 01/29/13 PARNON DISPATCHER CONTACTED JAYHAWK STATION OPERATOR SAYING HIS DRIVER AT HAVILAND WAS REPORTING SOMETHING WAS LEAKING AROUND OUR PUMP AT HAVILAND. JPL STATION OPERATOR CONTACTED THE CONTROL ROOM AND STATION WAS SHUT DOWN AND DISABLED. STATION OPERATOR WAS APPROX 30 MINUTES FROM SITE AND HEADED THAT WAY TO ASSESS. NOT KNOWING WHERE THE SPILL WAS COMING FROM AT HAVILAND THE CONTROLLER ALSO SHUT DOWN ALL OTHER PUMPS UPSTREAM OF HAVILAND UNTIL STATION OPERATOR ARRIVED. ADDITIONAL NOTIFICATIONS WERE MADE TO INITIATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE. LIBERAL FOREMAN DISPATCHED MAINTENANCE PERSONEL TO SITE. UPON ARRIVAL TO THE SITE THE STATION OPERATOR FOUND A 15-20 BBL LEAK CONTAINED TO THE STATION SITE AND FLOW HAD STOPPED. HE CALLED FOR A VAC TRUCK DID HAZARD ASSESSMENT THEN TRACED SPILL TO A BROKEN PIECE OF STAINLESS STEEL TUBING RUNNING FROM THE DISCHARGE SIDE OF THE PD PUMP TO DISCHARGE SOR SWITCH. STATION OPERATOR SECURED THE SITE AND CONTACTED THE CONTROL ROOM AND LET THEM KNOW STATIONS UPSTREAM COULD BE RESTAARTED AS HE HAD SECURED THE CAUSE. AS VAC TRUCK AND OTHER PERSONEL ARRIVED 6 BBLS OF CRUDE OIL WAS RECOVERED AND ANOTHER 8.7 BBLS WAS ESTIMATED TO BE IN THE IMPACTED SOILS. IMPACTED SOILS WERE GATHERED AND SPREAD IN A REMEDIATION AREA INSIDE THE STATION FENCED AREA. MECHANIC FOUND TUBING HAD BROKE RIGHT AT A ""SWAGELOCK"" FITTING. NEW VALVE AND FITTINGS WERE CONNECTED TO DISCHARGE SIDE OF PUMP PIPING TO A LENGTH OF HIGH PRESSURE HYDRAULIC HOSE WHICH WAS THEN CONNECTED TO THE STAINLESS STEEL TUBING TO THE PRESSURE SWITCH CREATING A FLEXIBLE CONNECTION IN CASE THIS FAILURE WAS DUE TO VIBRATION. STATION OPERATOR HAD BEEN THERE JUST 1 HOUR AND 50 MINUTES PRIOR AND PUMP WAS RUNNING SMOOTHLY. REPAIRS WERE COMPLETED AND STATION WAS RESTARTED AT 18:45 AND CLEANUP WAS DONE BY 8PM. SMALL AMOUNT OF TOUCH UP WORK WAS COMPLETED THE FOLLOWING DAY. TUBING WILL BE ANALYZED. TAP ROOT INCIDENT REVIEW WAS PERFORMED. WE WILL EVALUATE PRACTICES AND THE MATERIALS USED TO DETERMINE IF ADDITIONAL CORRECTIVE MEASURES NEED TO BE TAKEN TO PREVENT LIKE OCCURRENCES SUPPLEMENTAL: WE SOUGHT OUT SWAGELOCK EXPERT TO LOOK AT FITTING AND GIVE HIS OPINION ON WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE FITTING IN QUESTION. JAYHAWK MECHANIC AND SWAGELOCK REPRESENTATIVE KEN CROY INSPECTED THE PARTS AND MR. CROY DETERMINED THAT A ""BITE TYPE"" FERRUL HAD BEEN USED BY MISTAKE ON THE FITTING WHEN IT WAS INSTALLED WHICH HAD CAUSED THE TUBING TO FAIL. THE FERRUL WAS MISTAKENLY NOT RECOVERED BY OUR MECHANIC AS THEY TOOK FITTING APART FOR ANY FURTHER ASSESSMENT.