LA Bucket Brigade : Refinery Accident Database

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Phillips 66 (2538), Lake Charles

Releases of Hydrocarbon

LDEQ Accident Number Accident Date	Point Source(s)	Notes	Amount of Release
78175 2005-04-12	Y-2 Cooling Tower (Ep-152)	Cause: The release occurred over a 3 day period due to leaking exchangers. The exchangers are in CatPoly depropanizer overhead service. Followup: No Notes: Once the leaking exchangers were pinpointed through sampling efforts, the Depropanizer Tower was shutdown and blocked in to stop the leak and make repairs to the exchangers. The incident was found to be unpreventable as the leas was not foreseen (a rou	2,930.0 pounds
78229 2005-04-12	#2 Cooker	Cause: -Release due to accidental opening of an atmospheric valve on a coke drum which occurred during a drum switch. Followup: No Notes: Immediately upon discovery the valve was closed and the release ended. The incident was preventable, however the reportable quantities were not exceeded, therefore notification made as courtesy only. Release associated with citizen complaint above, in	543.0 pounds
75949 2005-01-02	Y-1 Cooling Tower (EP-152)	Cause: The incident involved a release of hydrocarbons from the Y-1Cooling Tower due to leaking exchangers. Followup: No Notes: Upon discovery of release, the facility procedures to identify the leak source based on hydrocarbon sampling of cooling water retune lines and further sampling of specific exchangers. Operations personnel took immediate steps to isolate the leaking e
07-BB007-1596 2007-04-10	Area A tank manifold	Cause: -sump pump was changed from automatic to manual position ; heavy rains caused it to overflow Followup: No Notes: Operators should be trained to know when to contact leaders when sump pumps do not work. Evaluation will be conducted to determine what can be done to prevent recurrence.	<1
109063 2008-09-14	Area D Docks	Cause: CP docks flooded as a result of storm surge leading to Oil on water Followup: No Notes: ES&H conducting post-hurricane rehabilitation efforts
108490 2008-09-02	Dock 2-B	Cause: Hurricane Gustav caused mixer seal problems at Tank 2001 and Tank 372 and caused oil to overflow the oily water sewer area. - shutdown related to Hurricane Gustav causes deactivation of a pump. Oil in sump displaced by heavy rai Followup: No Notes: DEQ report indicates that a notification from C-P has been requested; Enviro services company called out to contain spill and perform cleanup. Oil insufficient to recover. Verbal report indicates spill was 4 to 5 barrels.	210.0 gallons
106325 2008-06-10	No. 7 HDS Unit	Cause: leaking plug on HDS cited as cause of release Followup: No Notes: Letter states that emissions were BRQ.
130873 2011-04-26	outfall 002 from triangle pond	Cause: Triangle pond filled due to rainfall event and some residual oil was carried out with the storm water when the triangle pond flowed to outfall 002. Followup: No Notes: New booms were installed and oil absorbent pads were put out to mitigate sheen. No sheen went past the concrete retaining walls.