LA Bucket Brigade : Refinery Accident Database

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Placid Refining (2366), Port Allen

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LDEQ Accident Number Accident Date	Point Source(s)	Notes	Amount of Release
No LDEQ Reported 2005-08-28	No Information Given	Cause: Refinery shutdown for safety purposed for Hurricane Katrina Followup: No Notes: Hazmat incident #05-05935
No LDEQ Reported 2005-07-05	No Information Given	Cause: The were no unauthorized discharges. This was a controlled early shutdown for schedule unit turnaround Followup: No Notes: None
No LDEQ Reported 2005-06-21	No Information Given	Cause: No unautorized discharge occurred. This was an orderly controlled unit shutdown for unit maintenance Followup: No Notes: None
111650 2008-12-28	No Information Given	Cause: The cat gas hydrotreater was shutdown as a result of the FCC unit shutdown and this failure resulted in flaring during startup. Followup: No Notes: Heat tracing has been installed on the discharge flow transmitters.
No LDEQ Reported 2008-12-28	FLARE	Cause: no information given Followup: No Notes: Due to the FCC unit being down the Hydroheater had to shut down which caused flaring during start up.
111382 2008-12-12	No Information Given	Cause: the power failure is due to a failed circuit breaker. this power failure resulted in upset conditions in several Placid's process units. These upset conditions caused necessary heavy flaring until the units be could returned to the normal operations. Also the power failure caused a flange to leak in FCCU. Followup: No Notes: electrical department fixed the failed circuit breaker. Working to redesign the breaker in question.
No LDEQ Reported 2008-12-12	FLARE FCCU/Flange Leak	Cause: Failed circuit breaker Followup: No Notes: Facility's electrical department is working to redesign breaker
No LDEQ Reported 2008-09-24	FLARE	Cause: Sulfur recovery unit out of service Followup: No Notes: Sour water off-gases with Hydrogen Sulfide being flared while sulfur recovery unit down. Incident #109595 serves as follow up and sour gases taken out of flare and put back into sulfur recovery unit 9/25/2008.
No LDEQ Reported 2008-09-01	Flare	Cause: Power failure caused unplanned shutdown/start up which caused flaring Followup: No Notes: no information given
No LDEQ Reported 2008-05-15	Wastewater treatment facility	Cause: Torrential rains Followup: No Notes: Torrential rains overwhelmed the waste water treament system causing necessary temporary bypass
123466 2010-05-15	FLARE	Cause: "Unscheduled maintenance requiring shutdown of FCC Unit. The packing on the slide valve stem in the regenerator side of FCCU failed and had to shut down the unit and flaring ensued." No details given regarding what was emitted. FLARE. Followup: No Notes: BRQ. Refinery letter states that no reportable quantities were exceeded during this incident. Valve removed and sent for repair.