JAYHAWK PIPELINE LLC

Incident Narrative

AT 3:00 PM 12/10/12 REFINERY GAUGER NOTIFIED CONTROL ROOM THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING LEAKING AT THE MCPHERSON METER TERMINAL A SMALL SPRAY APPEARED TO BE COMING FROM A DOUBLE BLOCK AND BLEED VALVE. CONTROLLER IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN LINE SEGMENTS COMING INTO METER TERMINAL AND CLOSED VALVES WHICH STOPPED LEAK. CONTROLLER NOTIFIED MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL WHO THEN DISPATCHED PERSONNEL TO INVESTIGATE, AND REPAIR. UPON INVESTIGATION A SMALL PIECE OF TUBING WAS FOUND SPLIT ON A DOUBLE BLOCK AND BLEED PLUG VALVE. THE TUBING IS TO RELEIVE INTERNAL BODY PRESSURE OF THE PLUG VALVE. A SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER HAD EVIDENTLY ACCUMULATED IN THE TUBING AND WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE SINGLE DIGITS THEN FROZE AND SPLIT THE TUBING. WHEN TEMPERATURES SLOWLY ROSE DURING THE DAY THE ICE THAWED AND ALLOWED OIL TO SPRAY FROM 1 INCH SPLIT IN THE TUBING. TUBING WAS REPLACED WITH NEW. CLEANUP OF THE SITE CONSISTED OF CLEANING STATION PIPING, REMOVING STAINED ROCK FROM AROUND MANIFOLD AND PICKING UP ALL ""FREE"" OIL FORM THE SITE WITH A VAC TRUCK. 2 BBLS OF OIL WERE RECOVERED. REMAINING IMPACTED SOILS WERE DUG UP AND MOVED TO REMEDIATION AREA FOR LAND FARMING. ALL VALVES OF THIS MAKE AND MODEL WERE THEN CHECKED AT THIS STATION AND OTHERS TO MAKE SURE NONE OF THEM HAD ACCUMULATED WATER IN THE BODY RELIEF LINES.