High Island Pipeline System (Amoco); offshore Texas

offshore Texas | 1998-Jan-22

Initial Notification: At 1914, January 22, 1998, an Amoco Pipeline recorded a pressure drop indicative of a pipeline rupture. The rupture occurred somewhere along a line running from mid-Galveston Island (on a course of 151 degrees true) out to a point approximately 90 miles offshore. Calculations by Amoco, based on the pressure drop, indicated a worst-case release of 2500 barrels of Texas sweet crude, having an API of 39.4. The amount was later adjusted to about 300 barrels lost. USCG district 8. Keyword: Corexit 9527.