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CITGO Petroleum (1250), Lake Charles

Releases of Hydrocarbon

LDEQ Accident Number
Accident Date		 Point Source(s) Notes Amount of Release
82579

2005-09-25		C-Dock
Bulkhead at B-Dock
Cause: Sheen observed (hydrocarbon release) from B-Dock; potentially released when area was inundated of the area during Hurricane Rita. Release of crude oil from C-Dock; during Hurricane Rita a nipple located on a crude oil loading arm was broken off.

Followup:

Notes: Area was boomed off and crude oil material recovered. Offsite impact. Miller Environmental responded for the clean up. Crude oil approximately one foot thick. Tank either ovrflowed or line valve breach. Had small natural gas leak from inlet piping blowing.		0.1 pounds
82391

2005-09-22		FLARE
Cause: Flaring of hydrocarbons for shut down for Hurricane Rita.

Followup:

Notes: No information given
79360

2005-05-25		Coker 1 Unit
Cause: valve was not closed all the way on blow down system

Followup: No

Notes: Closed valve
93604

2007-01-31		Tank 34
Cause: a valve was left open while the tank was being filled

Followup: No

Notes: Steps are being taken to raise operator awareness. Initial verbal report indicates spill was 4-5 barrels of hydrocarbon. Report submitted to DEQ with CITGO letter states that release was 21,885 lb		21,885.0 pounds
110375

2008-10-27		B-7 Flare
Cause: No information given

Followup: No

Notes: verbal report mentions C4 Recovery Unit, JC101 Compress
108062

2008-08-14		B-Cat Unit
Cause: see notes

Followup: No

Notes: Flaring results from leaking relief valve
116049

2009-06-26		tank 503
Cause: No RQs were exceeded, son no information was given.

Followup: No

Notes: No information given
122280

2010-03-22		PFU flaring
Cause: "mechanical failure of a release valve or process safety valve"

Followup: No

Notes: no information given
129028

2011-02-04		FLARE: B-12 Flare
Cause: FLARE. Refinery letter states that pilot flames were lost from the B-12 flare.

Followup: No

Notes: BRQ. Pilot light was reignited. No material went offsite.
141834

2012-08-06		Tank 81
Cause: On August 6, 2012, Citgo Petroleum reported an incident at their Lake Charles Manufacturing Complex. During routines rounds by an operator, Tank 81 (in the oil movement area) was discovered to be leaking gasoline from the top of the tank. According to Lee Liebendorfer with the company's Environmental Group, approximately 2 barrels of gasoline had leaked while putting a line in service. Nitrogen had been trapped in the tank and had escaped the floating roof tank causing the spill. LDEQ verbal report states that nitrogen gas had been trapped in the tank and escaped the floating roof tank causing the spill.

Followup: No

Notes: A vacuum truck pulled from the room drain and clean up the spill. The refinery reported the amount of gasoline leaked was below reportable quanity, but the amount that was leaked was 2 barrels of gasoline. The 2 barrels was converted to 84 gallons. Verbal report states that nitrogen gas had been trapped in the tank and had escaped the floating roof tank causing the spill, but refinery does not mention nitrogen gas at all in their written notification. Initial report states the material did go offsite.