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At the time, PBF's top executive called Shell the best refinery in the region, and executives for both companies said they expected the sale to close by the end of 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Trade Commission, which is reviewing the merger, has asked PBF another round of questions about the proposed sale in what's known as a \"second request,\" according to PBF spokesman Michael Karlovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"martinez-refinery\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pending regulatory and other approvals ... we now anticipate that the transaction will close during the first quarter of 2020,\" Karlovich said last week in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betsy Lordan, a FTC spokeswoman, said she could not comment on what specifically prompted the subsequent request for more information, but in general it represents worries from regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When one of the antitrust agencies issues a second request, it is because the initial review has raised antitrust concerns that warrant closer examination,\" Lordan said Monday in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second requests take place in less than 4% of such mergers, said Aaron Edlin, a professor of law and economics at UC Berkeley, who specializes in anti-trust issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The queries \"indicate that the agency has concerns about the impact of the merger on competition,\" Edlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More information could alleviate those concerns but if the agency continues to be concerned it can challenge the merger or negotiate with the companies to get some pro-competitive concession,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF disclosed the delay to investors during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/11/01/pbf-energy-pbf-q3-2019-earnings-call-transcript.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earnings call\u003c/a> in late October, but it did not gain wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company president Matthew Lucey said then that he expected the deal to close in the first half of the first quarter of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But again, it's not completely in our control,\" Lucey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the status of the deal, Shell did not indicate any problems with the proposed transaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shell's Martinez Refinery divestment deal with PBF Holding Company, LLC, continues to move forward towards closing while working through all necessary regulatory approvals and execution of key implementation activities,\" said spokesman Ray Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Shell said the sale was part of the company's efforts to focus on a \"smaller, smarter refining portfolio.\"\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Betsy Lordan, a Federal Trade Commission spokeswoman\"]'When one of the antitrust agencies issues a second request, it is because the initial review has raised antitrust concerns that warrant closer examination.'[/pullquote]The announcement came as state regulators began reviewing Shell's proposal to sell a California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11752024/industry-safety-advocates-raise-concerns-over-sale-of-large-california-oil-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pipeline\u003c/a> to Long Beach-based Crimson Pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez Mayor Rob Schroder said PBF's new refinery manager told him in November that the sale was planned for February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although I believe that Shell has been a good corporate member of the Martinez community and has a culture of safety for its employees and community, I do not have concerns, at this time, about the sale,\" he said. \"But I am saddened to see a business leave Martinez after over 100 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shell facility converts crude petroleum into vehicle gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and asphalt, among other products. Shell and PBF have said in the past that workers employed at the Martinez site would be offered jobs at PBF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Attorney General's Office would be the key state agency tasked with reviewing PBF and Shell's deal, but it has declined to discuss the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To protect its integrity, we are unable to comment on, even to confirm or deny, a potential or ongoing investigation,\" the attorney general's office said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal regulators are raising antitrust concerns about a large independent refining company's plans to buy Shell Oil's Martinez refinery in a proposed $1 billion deal.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1577740265,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":684},"headData":{"title":"Sale of Shell's Martinez Refinery Delayed Amid Antitrust Concerns | KQED","description":"Federal regulators are raising antitrust concerns about a large independent refining company's plans to buy Shell Oil's Martinez refinery in a proposed $1 billion deal.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Sale of Shell's Martinez Refinery Delayed Amid Antitrust Concerns","datePublished":"2019-12-30T21:11:05.000Z","dateModified":"2019-12-30T21:11:05.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11793275 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11793275","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/30/sale-of-shells-martinez-refinery-delayed-amid-antitrust-concerns/","disqusTitle":"Sale of Shell's Martinez Refinery Delayed Amid Antitrust Concerns","path":"/news/11793275/sale-of-shells-martinez-refinery-delayed-amid-antitrust-concerns","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Federal regulators are raising antitrust concerns about a large independent refining company's plans to buy Shell Oil's Martinez refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare move, the Federal Trade Commission has asked New Jersey-based PBF Energy a series of extra questions about the proposed $1 billion deal, delaying the purchase of one of the Bay Area's largest refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11754005/shell-to-sell-martinez-refinery-for-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> plans in June to buy the Contra Costa County facility that has a refining capacity of 160,000 barrels of oil a day. At the time, PBF's top executive called Shell the best refinery in the region, and executives for both companies said they expected the sale to close by the end of 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Trade Commission, which is reviewing the merger, has asked PBF another round of questions about the proposed sale in what's known as a \"second request,\" according to PBF spokesman Michael Karlovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"martinez-refinery","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pending regulatory and other approvals ... we now anticipate that the transaction will close during the first quarter of 2020,\" Karlovich said last week in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betsy Lordan, a FTC spokeswoman, said she could not comment on what specifically prompted the subsequent request for more information, but in general it represents worries from regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When one of the antitrust agencies issues a second request, it is because the initial review has raised antitrust concerns that warrant closer examination,\" Lordan said Monday in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second requests take place in less than 4% of such mergers, said Aaron Edlin, a professor of law and economics at UC Berkeley, who specializes in anti-trust issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The queries \"indicate that the agency has concerns about the impact of the merger on competition,\" Edlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More information could alleviate those concerns but if the agency continues to be concerned it can challenge the merger or negotiate with the companies to get some pro-competitive concession,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF disclosed the delay to investors during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/11/01/pbf-energy-pbf-q3-2019-earnings-call-transcript.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earnings call\u003c/a> in late October, but it did not gain wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company president Matthew Lucey said then that he expected the deal to close in the first half of the first quarter of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But again, it's not completely in our control,\" Lucey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the status of the deal, Shell did not indicate any problems with the proposed transaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shell's Martinez Refinery divestment deal with PBF Holding Company, LLC, continues to move forward towards closing while working through all necessary regulatory approvals and execution of key implementation activities,\" said spokesman Ray Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Shell said the sale was part of the company's efforts to focus on a \"smaller, smarter refining portfolio.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When one of the antitrust agencies issues a second request, it is because the initial review has raised antitrust concerns that warrant closer examination.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Betsy Lordan, a Federal Trade Commission spokeswoman","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The announcement came as state regulators began reviewing Shell's proposal to sell a California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11752024/industry-safety-advocates-raise-concerns-over-sale-of-large-california-oil-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pipeline\u003c/a> to Long Beach-based Crimson Pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez Mayor Rob Schroder said PBF's new refinery manager told him in November that the sale was planned for February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although I believe that Shell has been a good corporate member of the Martinez community and has a culture of safety for its employees and community, I do not have concerns, at this time, about the sale,\" he said. \"But I am saddened to see a business leave Martinez after over 100 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shell facility converts crude petroleum into vehicle gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and asphalt, among other products. Shell and PBF have said in the past that workers employed at the Martinez site would be offered jobs at PBF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Attorney General's Office would be the key state agency tasked with reviewing PBF and Shell's deal, but it has declined to discuss the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To protect its integrity, we are unable to comment on, even to confirm or deny, a potential or ongoing investigation,\" the attorney general's office said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11793275/sale-of-shells-martinez-refinery-delayed-amid-antitrust-concerns","authors":["258"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_227","news_20455","news_20456","news_20028"],"featImg":"news_11793288","label":"news_72"},"news_11732859":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11732859","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11732859","score":null,"sort":[1552593329000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"shell-martinez-refinery-fine-for-2016-air-pollution-incident","title":"Shell to Pay $50,000 Fine for Releasing 20 Tons of Gas From Martinez Refinery","publishDate":1552593329,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Shell has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle several air pollution violations stemming from a major release of toxic gas at its Martinez refinery in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The penalty amounts are renewing criticism from environmentalists who say air quality penalties are too low -- a year after an effort to increase the fines failed to even get a hearing in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These fines are a gentle tap on the wrist for an oil giant like Shell,\" said Hollin Kretzmann, an Oakland-based attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's no surprise that these accidents keep happening when the air district fines are too small to change Shell's bad behavior,\" Kretzmann said. \"Martinez and other communities near these dangerous refineries need and deserve better protection from public officials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/page-resources/2019-news/031319-shell-settlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced Wednesday\u003c/a> that Shell would pay a total of $165,000 to settle 16 violations at the Martinez facility that took place between late 2015 and the end of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violations included penalties for exceeding sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide release limits, broken tank seals and overdue emission leak tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the violations stemmed from an incident on Dec. 19, 2016, when parts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11233969/shells-martinez-refinery-sent-close-to-20-tons-of-gas-to-its-flares-during-monday-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the refinery lost power\u003c/a>. The outage forced the facility to flare off nearly 20 tons of gases and sent flames and black smoke into the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident prompted local health officials authorities to issue an hours-long health advisory for people near the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem began when electrical engineers troubleshooting a problem with an alarm accidentally \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a;\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11286402/shell-wont-say-what-gases-its-martinez-refinery-sent-into-the-air-during-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tripped a circuit breaker\u003c/a> connected to a substation that feeds power to the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery later reported that a significant portion of the gas sent to its flares was hydrogen sulfide. When that gas burns through flaring it turns into sulfur dioxide, a pollutant that can harm the respiratory system and make breathing difficult. High levels of sulfur dioxide can damage trees and plants, and it also contributes to the formation of acid rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district fined Shell $20,000 for releasing sulfur dioxide into the air for four hours, according to air district spokesman Ralph Borrmann. The agency issued three $10,000 fines against the company for other emissions from three of the facility's boilers, Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell says it has made fixes to prevent a repeat of the December 2016 episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though these violations did not result in significant impacts to people or the environment, we take them seriously and aim to prevent them from happening again,\" said the Martinez refinery's spokeswoman, Ann Notarangelo, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Bay Area is home to some of the strictest air quality standards in the world, and those standards we embrace,\" Notarangelo said. \"When we fall short of them, we want to immediately report and correct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after several serious refinery malfunctions at Benicia's Valero refinery and the Phillips 66 facility in Rodeo, state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, proposed tripling many fines for refineries that violate air quality laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Bay Area mayors and environmental groups said the proposal was too weak, and the Western States Petroleum Association, which represents the state's major oil companies, opposed it as unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660005/facing-widespread-opposition-lawmaker-ends-effort-to-increase-refinery-penalties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed\u003c/a> before it received its first hearing.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"December 2016 release happened after a power outage to the facility. Environmental group calls the fine a 'gentle tap on the wrist.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1552606686,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":558},"headData":{"title":"Shell to Pay $50,000 Fine for Releasing 20 Tons of Gas From Martinez Refinery | KQED","description":"December 2016 release happened after a power outage to the facility. Environmental group calls the fine a 'gentle tap on the wrist.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Shell to Pay $50,000 Fine for Releasing 20 Tons of Gas From Martinez Refinery","datePublished":"2019-03-14T19:55:29.000Z","dateModified":"2019-03-14T23:38:06.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11732859 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11732859","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/03/14/shell-martinez-refinery-fine-for-2016-air-pollution-incident/","disqusTitle":"Shell to Pay $50,000 Fine for Releasing 20 Tons of Gas From Martinez Refinery","path":"/news/11732859/shell-martinez-refinery-fine-for-2016-air-pollution-incident","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Shell has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle several air pollution violations stemming from a major release of toxic gas at its Martinez refinery in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The penalty amounts are renewing criticism from environmentalists who say air quality penalties are too low -- a year after an effort to increase the fines failed to even get a hearing in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These fines are a gentle tap on the wrist for an oil giant like Shell,\" said Hollin Kretzmann, an Oakland-based attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's no surprise that these accidents keep happening when the air district fines are too small to change Shell's bad behavior,\" Kretzmann said. \"Martinez and other communities near these dangerous refineries need and deserve better protection from public officials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/page-resources/2019-news/031319-shell-settlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced Wednesday\u003c/a> that Shell would pay a total of $165,000 to settle 16 violations at the Martinez facility that took place between late 2015 and the end of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violations included penalties for exceeding sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide release limits, broken tank seals and overdue emission leak tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the violations stemmed from an incident on Dec. 19, 2016, when parts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11233969/shells-martinez-refinery-sent-close-to-20-tons-of-gas-to-its-flares-during-monday-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the refinery lost power\u003c/a>. The outage forced the facility to flare off nearly 20 tons of gases and sent flames and black smoke into the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident prompted local health officials authorities to issue an hours-long health advisory for people near the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem began when electrical engineers troubleshooting a problem with an alarm accidentally \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a;\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11286402/shell-wont-say-what-gases-its-martinez-refinery-sent-into-the-air-during-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tripped a circuit breaker\u003c/a> connected to a substation that feeds power to the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery later reported that a significant portion of the gas sent to its flares was hydrogen sulfide. When that gas burns through flaring it turns into sulfur dioxide, a pollutant that can harm the respiratory system and make breathing difficult. High levels of sulfur dioxide can damage trees and plants, and it also contributes to the formation of acid rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district fined Shell $20,000 for releasing sulfur dioxide into the air for four hours, according to air district spokesman Ralph Borrmann. The agency issued three $10,000 fines against the company for other emissions from three of the facility's boilers, Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell says it has made fixes to prevent a repeat of the December 2016 episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though these violations did not result in significant impacts to people or the environment, we take them seriously and aim to prevent them from happening again,\" said the Martinez refinery's spokeswoman, Ann Notarangelo, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Bay Area is home to some of the strictest air quality standards in the world, and those standards we embrace,\" Notarangelo said. \"When we fall short of them, we want to immediately report and correct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after several serious refinery malfunctions at Benicia's Valero refinery and the Phillips 66 facility in Rodeo, state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, proposed tripling many fines for refineries that violate air quality laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Bay Area mayors and environmental groups said the proposal was too weak, and the Western States Petroleum Association, which represents the state's major oil companies, opposed it as unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660005/facing-widespread-opposition-lawmaker-ends-effort-to-increase-refinery-penalties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed\u003c/a> before it received its first hearing.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11732859/shell-martinez-refinery-fine-for-2016-air-pollution-incident","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_227","news_20455","news_20456","news_20028"],"featImg":"news_11685494","label":"news"},"news_11685038":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11685038","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11685038","score":null,"sort":[1533713553000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"malfunctions-at-shells-martinez-refinery-more-serious-than-first-reported","title":"Malfunctions at Shell's Martinez Refinery More Serious Than First Reported","publishDate":1533713553,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8/10 at 12:50 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several malfunctions at Shell's East Bay refinery last month, which led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926961/health-advisory-lifted-for-martinez-pacheco-after-shell-refinery-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a health advisory in Martinez and Pacheco\u003c/a>, were more dangerous than first acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hours following a flaring incident on July 6, the company initially reported that a fire in a compressor unit at its Martinez facility led to the release of more than 100 pounds of hydrogen sulfide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/177039505666832/posts/due-to-unit-upset-there-is-a-potential-for-odors-to-reach-the-refinery-boundary-/1797965760240857/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Explaining the malfunction on Facebook\u003c/a>, Shell said there was a \"unit upset,\" but they had no reason to believe that its releases had drifted to nearby areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day Kristin Marczak, a company spokeswoman, told reporters the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Shell-refinery-in-Martinez-has-unplanned-13053834.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode\u003c/a> was similar to a \"car running and you have an unplanned shutdown of that car. We have a number of units within the plant that operate, and one of those units had kind of an unplanned shutdown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926961/health-advisory-lifted-for-martinez-pacheco-after-shell-refinery-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Advisory Lifted for Martinez, Pacheco After Shell Refinery 'Shutdown'\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It is now clear there were five refinery problems at the site over four days, leading to the release of more than 8,500 pounds of gas, according to documents Shell recently filed with Contra Costa County officials and a notification it made to the Governor's Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say this revelation follows a pattern of local oil refineries initially underestimating the severity of malfunctions at their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The potential impact from the incident was more serious than we initially realized,\" said Randy Sawyer, the county's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685527\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 880px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11685527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM.png 880w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-800x511.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-240x153.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-375x239.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shell refinery. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Contra Costa Health Services)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The problems began just after 1 a.m. when a loss of pressure inside a refinery unit set off unplanned flaring. During that operation all three of the refinery's flare pilot lights were accidentally extinguished by water, which had accumulated due to a faulty drainage system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot lights are supposed to remain on to ensure that gas released to the flaring system is burned off, which is considered safer than releasing the chemicals unburned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two hours later, while crews were investigating that problem, a small lubrication oil fire triggered one of Shell's \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=9650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hydrocracker\u003c/a> units (which help convert lower-quality fuels into higher-quality ones) to go offline, causing another flaring operation, resulting in the release of unburned gas again.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11675741/when-oil-refineries-flare-what-happens-to-the-air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When Oil Refineries Flare, What Happens To The Air?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Due to the failures, close to 1,500 pounds of methane, 860 pounds of hydrogen gas and 260 pounds of hydrogen sulfide were released into the air from the refinery that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release of hydrogen sulfide accounts for five weeks' worth of the typical emissions of that chemical from the refinery, according Bay Area Air Quality Management District spokesman Tom Flannigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps more concerning, the malfunctions also led to the release of close to 5,700 pounds of unspecified \"non-methane hydrocarbons.\" This could include chemicals like propane and benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This amount may have been dangerous, according to Anthony Wexler, director of the Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is where the concerns may be,\" Wexler said in an email, calling the release of those gases \"an unspecified mix of potential nasties and lots of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later the refinery's catalytic cracking unit \"unexpected shutdown,\" according to documents Shell filed with the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. That caused another round of flaring that lasted close to six hours, leading to the release of 45 pounds of sulfur dioxide, Shell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, July 9, in the process of re-starting that unit, the refinery released close to 400 pounds of sulfur dioxide in yet another round of flaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The malfunctions have alarmed environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite concerning to see the quantities of dangerous gases,\" said Hollin Kretzmann, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. \"As is often the case, what was reported initially drastically underestimated the true extent of the release.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'As is often the case, \u003c/strong>what was reported initially drastically underestimated the true extent of the release.'\u003ccite>Hollin Kretzmann, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that there were multiple flaring events in rapid succession over the course of a few days shows that whatever safety measures and protocols the refinery has in place are not adequate to prevent these accidents from happening,\" Kretzmann said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local air regulators issued a notice of violation against Shell for the July 7 incident for failure to maintain continuous operation of its flare pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is investigating the malfunctions, Flannigan said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district sent staff to the scene several hours after the first refinery malfunction, according to an agency incident report filed that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said then its investigators did not observe any odors downwind of the refinery and it did not receive any complaints from residents near the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell told the district it found no readings on its downwind ground-level monitors in excess of regulatory standards for hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the company have yet to respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in its report to the county, Shell says it's in the process of making a series of changes to its Martinez facility to prevent a similar incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes updated information from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and Governor's Office of Emergency Services. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It's now clear there were four refinery problems at the site over three days, leading to the release of at least 8,750 pounds of gas.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1533930820,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":914},"headData":{"title":"Malfunctions at Shell's Martinez Refinery More Serious Than First Reported | KQED","description":"It's now clear there were four refinery problems at the site over three days, leading to the release of at least 8,750 pounds of gas.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Malfunctions at Shell's Martinez Refinery More Serious Than First Reported","datePublished":"2018-08-08T07:32:33.000Z","dateModified":"2018-08-10T19:53:40.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11685038 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11685038","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/08/08/malfunctions-at-shells-martinez-refinery-more-serious-than-first-reported/","disqusTitle":"Malfunctions at Shell's Martinez Refinery More Serious Than First Reported","path":"/news/11685038/malfunctions-at-shells-martinez-refinery-more-serious-than-first-reported","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8/10 at 12:50 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several malfunctions at Shell's East Bay refinery last month, which led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926961/health-advisory-lifted-for-martinez-pacheco-after-shell-refinery-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a health advisory in Martinez and Pacheco\u003c/a>, were more dangerous than first acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hours following a flaring incident on July 6, the company initially reported that a fire in a compressor unit at its Martinez facility led to the release of more than 100 pounds of hydrogen sulfide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/177039505666832/posts/due-to-unit-upset-there-is-a-potential-for-odors-to-reach-the-refinery-boundary-/1797965760240857/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Explaining the malfunction on Facebook\u003c/a>, Shell said there was a \"unit upset,\" but they had no reason to believe that its releases had drifted to nearby areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day Kristin Marczak, a company spokeswoman, told reporters the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Shell-refinery-in-Martinez-has-unplanned-13053834.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode\u003c/a> was similar to a \"car running and you have an unplanned shutdown of that car. We have a number of units within the plant that operate, and one of those units had kind of an unplanned shutdown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926961/health-advisory-lifted-for-martinez-pacheco-after-shell-refinery-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Advisory Lifted for Martinez, Pacheco After Shell Refinery 'Shutdown'\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It is now clear there were five refinery problems at the site over four days, leading to the release of more than 8,500 pounds of gas, according to documents Shell recently filed with Contra Costa County officials and a notification it made to the Governor's Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say this revelation follows a pattern of local oil refineries initially underestimating the severity of malfunctions at their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The potential impact from the incident was more serious than we initially realized,\" said Randy Sawyer, the county's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685527\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 880px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11685527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM.png 880w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-800x511.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-240x153.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-375x239.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-4.37.48-PM-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shell refinery. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Contra Costa Health Services)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The problems began just after 1 a.m. when a loss of pressure inside a refinery unit set off unplanned flaring. During that operation all three of the refinery's flare pilot lights were accidentally extinguished by water, which had accumulated due to a faulty drainage system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot lights are supposed to remain on to ensure that gas released to the flaring system is burned off, which is considered safer than releasing the chemicals unburned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two hours later, while crews were investigating that problem, a small lubrication oil fire triggered one of Shell's \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=9650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hydrocracker\u003c/a> units (which help convert lower-quality fuels into higher-quality ones) to go offline, causing another flaring operation, resulting in the release of unburned gas again.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11675741/when-oil-refineries-flare-what-happens-to-the-air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When Oil Refineries Flare, What Happens To The Air?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Due to the failures, close to 1,500 pounds of methane, 860 pounds of hydrogen gas and 260 pounds of hydrogen sulfide were released into the air from the refinery that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release of hydrogen sulfide accounts for five weeks' worth of the typical emissions of that chemical from the refinery, according Bay Area Air Quality Management District spokesman Tom Flannigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps more concerning, the malfunctions also led to the release of close to 5,700 pounds of unspecified \"non-methane hydrocarbons.\" This could include chemicals like propane and benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This amount may have been dangerous, according to Anthony Wexler, director of the Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is where the concerns may be,\" Wexler said in an email, calling the release of those gases \"an unspecified mix of potential nasties and lots of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later the refinery's catalytic cracking unit \"unexpected shutdown,\" according to documents Shell filed with the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. That caused another round of flaring that lasted close to six hours, leading to the release of 45 pounds of sulfur dioxide, Shell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, July 9, in the process of re-starting that unit, the refinery released close to 400 pounds of sulfur dioxide in yet another round of flaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The malfunctions have alarmed environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite concerning to see the quantities of dangerous gases,\" said Hollin Kretzmann, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. \"As is often the case, what was reported initially drastically underestimated the true extent of the release.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'As is often the case, \u003c/strong>what was reported initially drastically underestimated the true extent of the release.'\u003ccite>Hollin Kretzmann, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that there were multiple flaring events in rapid succession over the course of a few days shows that whatever safety measures and protocols the refinery has in place are not adequate to prevent these accidents from happening,\" Kretzmann said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local air regulators issued a notice of violation against Shell for the July 7 incident for failure to maintain continuous operation of its flare pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is investigating the malfunctions, Flannigan said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district sent staff to the scene several hours after the first refinery malfunction, according to an agency incident report filed that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said then its investigators did not observe any odors downwind of the refinery and it did not receive any complaints from residents near the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell told the district it found no readings on its downwind ground-level monitors in excess of regulatory standards for hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the company have yet to respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in its report to the county, Shell says it's in the process of making a series of changes to its Martinez facility to prevent a similar incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes updated information from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and Governor's Office of Emergency Services. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11685038/malfunctions-at-shells-martinez-refinery-more-serious-than-first-reported","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20628","news_20455","news_21107","news_20028"],"featImg":"news_11685494","label":"news"},"news_11672621":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11672621","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11672621","score":null,"sort":[1528242541000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"shell-settles-with-epa-over-violations-at-martinez-refinery","title":"Shell Settles With EPA Over Violations at Martinez Refinery","publishDate":1528242541,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Shell Oil Co. has agreed to a settlement valued at $400,000 over charges it illegally released hazardous materials into the environment from its Contra Costa County refinery for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area environmentalists say the monetary amount is spare change for one of the world's richest companies and have reacted with outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-epa-requires-bay-area-refinery-improve-waste-management-pay-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreement\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's order requires Shell Oil to make necessary enhancements to comply with federal laws and protect public health and our natural resources,\" said Mike Stoker, the EPA's new regional administrator, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1924459/new-chief-of-epa-region-9-has-deep-ties-to-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoker\u003c/a> was appointed to the position last month. He has previously worked as a spokesman for an oil and gas company and has been criticized by environmental groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement requires Shell to make facility upgrades, ensure its hazardous materials are properly managed and develop a plan to sample stormwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ILzu57PgSBF43FC3B3tQjQc6fS1NC9g3\"]In a press release, the agency estimates the required improvements will prevent the release of tons of hazardous waste materials into the environment every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell plans to pay $220,300 to make facility improvements, $142,664 as a civil penalty to the EPA and $38,000 in support of emergency planning and preparedness in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA says the company violated several federal Clean Air Act regulations involving the release of sulfuric acid and butane and improper storage of several toxic chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says the refinery failed to appropriately provide notice after a release of 4,605 pounds of sulfuric acid on Dec. 14, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spill took place between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m that day, but Shell told Contra Costa County officials and the California State Warning Center after 11 a.m., according to Randy Sawyer, the county's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"vILoUzA22ppTHxFS3G6G5Fl1S2EPTvB0\"]The chemical was released into a storm drain, according to a county report. Shell later said that it was caused by the failure of a storage tank valve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violations were uncovered during several EPA inspections between 2014 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During one inspection the agency found, in a paint shop, 18 containers of waste stored incorrectly as non-hazardous materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal inspectors found some hazardous waste containers were left open, others were not labeled and in some cases, waste was treated, stored and disposed without a required permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also said Shell did not sample stormwater as it should have from its facility before releasing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area environmental groups blasted the settlement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is like getting fined a nickel for speeding through a school zone,\" said Hollin Kretzmann, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite finding that Shell released thousands of pounds of dangerous sulfuric acid and many other violations, EPA's so-called penalty amounts to spare change for one of the world's richest companies,\" Kretzmann said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Shell made $16 billion in profits, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/shell-results/shells-2017-profits-more-than-double-idUSL8N1PR1FJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by Reuters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clear the EPA wants to protect Shell more than the communities threatened by this dirty refinery,\" Kretzmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, says Shell's failure to report spills and comply with hazardous waste laws puts nearby communities and the bay at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"EPA's penalty is insubstantial compared to the real risk posed by the company's misdeeds. Shell officials should be ashamed of their actions, and the company should have been fined an amount that would have ensured they didn't shirk their responsibility to the public again,\" Choksi-Chugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell executives say they will put in place several reforms to make their sampling and reporting of hazardous materials more robust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though these findings did not result in significant impacts to our community or the environment, we take them seriously and will take the appropriate steps to prevent them from happening again,\" said Tom Rizzo, Shell refinery general manager, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Bay Area is home to some of the world's most stringent regulations on industry, and those are standards we don't shy away from,\" said Shell spokeswoman Ann Notarangelo. \"When we fall short of them, we want to immediately report and correct.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'This is like getting fined a nickel for speeding through a school zone,' said Hollin Kretzmann with the Center for Biological Diversity.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1528242541,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":717},"headData":{"title":"Shell Settles With EPA Over Violations at Martinez Refinery | KQED","description":"'This is like getting fined a nickel for speeding through a school zone,' said Hollin Kretzmann with the Center for Biological Diversity.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Shell Settles With EPA Over Violations at Martinez Refinery","datePublished":"2018-06-05T23:49:01.000Z","dateModified":"2018-06-05T23:49:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11672621 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11672621","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/06/05/shell-settles-with-epa-over-violations-at-martinez-refinery/","disqusTitle":"Shell Settles With EPA Over Violations at Martinez Refinery","path":"/news/11672621/shell-settles-with-epa-over-violations-at-martinez-refinery","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Shell Oil Co. has agreed to a settlement valued at $400,000 over charges it illegally released hazardous materials into the environment from its Contra Costa County refinery for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area environmentalists say the monetary amount is spare change for one of the world's richest companies and have reacted with outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-epa-requires-bay-area-refinery-improve-waste-management-pay-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreement\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's order requires Shell Oil to make necessary enhancements to comply with federal laws and protect public health and our natural resources,\" said Mike Stoker, the EPA's new regional administrator, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1924459/new-chief-of-epa-region-9-has-deep-ties-to-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoker\u003c/a> was appointed to the position last month. He has previously worked as a spokesman for an oil and gas company and has been criticized by environmental groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement requires Shell to make facility upgrades, ensure its hazardous materials are properly managed and develop a plan to sample stormwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In a press release, the agency estimates the required improvements will prevent the release of tons of hazardous waste materials into the environment every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell plans to pay $220,300 to make facility improvements, $142,664 as a civil penalty to the EPA and $38,000 in support of emergency planning and preparedness in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA says the company violated several federal Clean Air Act regulations involving the release of sulfuric acid and butane and improper storage of several toxic chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says the refinery failed to appropriately provide notice after a release of 4,605 pounds of sulfuric acid on Dec. 14, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spill took place between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m that day, but Shell told Contra Costa County officials and the California State Warning Center after 11 a.m., according to Randy Sawyer, the county's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The chemical was released into a storm drain, according to a county report. Shell later said that it was caused by the failure of a storage tank valve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violations were uncovered during several EPA inspections between 2014 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During one inspection the agency found, in a paint shop, 18 containers of waste stored incorrectly as non-hazardous materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal inspectors found some hazardous waste containers were left open, others were not labeled and in some cases, waste was treated, stored and disposed without a required permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also said Shell did not sample stormwater as it should have from its facility before releasing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area environmental groups blasted the settlement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is like getting fined a nickel for speeding through a school zone,\" said Hollin Kretzmann, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite finding that Shell released thousands of pounds of dangerous sulfuric acid and many other violations, EPA's so-called penalty amounts to spare change for one of the world's richest companies,\" Kretzmann said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Shell made $16 billion in profits, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/shell-results/shells-2017-profits-more-than-double-idUSL8N1PR1FJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by Reuters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clear the EPA wants to protect Shell more than the communities threatened by this dirty refinery,\" Kretzmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, says Shell's failure to report spills and comply with hazardous waste laws puts nearby communities and the bay at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"EPA's penalty is insubstantial compared to the real risk posed by the company's misdeeds. Shell officials should be ashamed of their actions, and the company should have been fined an amount that would have ensured they didn't shirk their responsibility to the public again,\" Choksi-Chugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell executives say they will put in place several reforms to make their sampling and reporting of hazardous materials more robust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though these findings did not result in significant impacts to our community or the environment, we take them seriously and will take the appropriate steps to prevent them from happening again,\" said Tom Rizzo, Shell refinery general manager, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Bay Area is home to some of the world's most stringent regulations on industry, and those are standards we don't shy away from,\" said Shell spokeswoman Ann Notarangelo. \"When we fall short of them, we want to immediately report and correct.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11672621/shell-settles-with-epa-over-violations-at-martinez-refinery","authors":["258"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_6188","news_8","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_3187","news_20028"],"featImg":"news_11287828","label":"news_72"},"news_11074703":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11074703","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11074703","score":null,"sort":[1476140135000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-outsources-east-bay-pipeline-spill-investigation-to-oil-company","title":"Critics Question State Pipeline Oversight After 2 Altamont Oil Spills","publishDate":1476140135,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The San Bruno gas pipeline explosion of 2010 brought unprecedented scrutiny to the state’s network of natural gas pipelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, two breaks in an East Bay pipeline have sparked questions about whether the state office charged with overseeing oil pipeline safety is up to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has learned that the state investigation into the rupture of a 24-inch Shell Oil Co. pipeline on the eastern edge of the Bay Area in September 2015 relied heavily on the energy company's own analysis of the incident -- some critics say too heavily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/287080575\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the State Fire Marshal, a division of Cal Fire charged with investigating oil pipeline incidents inside the state, never took possession of the portion of the line that broke and did not conduct its own inspection of the line after it ruptured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In assessing the rupture's cause, the fire marshal's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788523/Office-of-the-State-Fire-Marchal-rport-on-the-Sept-17-2015-Pipeline-Rupture?secret_password=YNy3ioXbzWM9JJj6h5QD\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> merely quoted a three-sentence summary provided by a firm Shell hired to look into the incident. The fire marshal's review failed to document when, where or by whom the pipe was manufactured or how it got to the West Coast decades ago -- a trip that could have weakened the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire marshal's office says the company did not violate state regulations in connection with the rupture and did not levy any penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months later, in May 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/24/pipeline-at-center-of-altamont-pass-oil-spill-also-ruptured-last-september/\" target=\"_blank\">the Shell pipeline broke again\u003c/a> and spilled crude oil in the same area, just off Interstate 580 near Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974514\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 669px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10974514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/shellpipeline.png\" alt=\"Image from Central Valley Water Quality Control Board report on Shell Oil's May 20 pipeline break. Picture shows inactive older pipeline and newer pipeline that ruptured, spilling about 21,000 gallons of oil. \" width=\"669\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/shellpipeline.png 669w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/shellpipeline-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Central Valley Water Quality Control Board report on Shell Oil's May 20 pipeline break. Picture shows inactive older pipeline and newer pipeline that ruptured, spilling about 21,000 gallons of oil. \u003ccite>(Central Valley Water Quality Control Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although state reports say the spills were cleaned up and \"no water was affected,\" each rupture along the company's San Pablo Bay Pipeline, which brings crude oil from the Central Valley to the Bay Area, led to tens of thousands of gallons of crude to spill onto ranch land in the Altamont Pass, alarming environmentalists and prompting concern from at least one state lawmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED obtained Shell's analysis of the break and the fire marshal's report on the incident through a California Public Records Act request, to learn more about the investigation into the Sept. 16, 2015, spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pipeline experts, safety advocates and environmentalists who have reviewed those records say they reveal weaknesses in the way many crude pipelines in California are regulated. They also raise questions about whether the state fire marshal's office is equipped to oversee this part of the oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286469556?secret_token=s-0klrw\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inadequate Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says 752 intrastate pipelines are under its jurisdiction. One of the nation's leading experts on pipeline safety says that should change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cal Fire does not have the appropriate tools to regulate and inspect something as sophisticated and intricate as a pipeline,\" says Robert Bea, professor emeritus at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley's College of Engineering. \"For us to turn to our heroes in Cal Fire and expect them to do this is not fair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea says the California Public Utilities Commission and the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration are better suited for such investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The understanding of cracking threats and what are the appropriate assessment methods may not be well understood by state regulators,\" says Richard Kuprewicz, president of Accufacts Inc., a Redmond, Washington-based firm that specializes in pipeline investigations. He notes that part of the cause of the September break was a small crack in the line that expanded over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The California fire marshal used to be considered one of the better state regulators in the country, and then they went through some funding issues,\" says Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Washington-based nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They actually backed away from a lot of their regulatory authority,\" Weimer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Dp2gwxfYC5m1m6DsMCLF7ieqAXGdfWoy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cal Fire seems to almost have completely outsourced the investigation into this very serious incident to Shell itself,\" adds Patrick Sullivan, the climate media director with the activist Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a pipeline here that has failed again and again,\" Sullivan says. \"The state ought to be taking a much harder look and do its own hands-on investigation to figure out what's really going on here. Cal Fire doesn't have enough staff, it doesn't have enough resources and it does not have the will to really keep a close eye on pipelines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's director of pipeline safety acknowledged after a major crude oil pipeline rupture last year near Santa Barbara that the agency has been \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/30/patchwork-of-oversight-keep-tabs-of-californias-vast-network-of-oil-pipelines/\" target=\"_blank\">working with a minimum staff\u003c/a> for years -- but Cal Fire emphasizes that its fire marshal's office followed state regulations in investigating last September's Altamont spill and note that Shell commissioned a well-respected third party to investigate the break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire argues that federal law calls for pipeline operators to analyze the cause of accidents involving their lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to the \u003ca href=\"http://osfm.fire.ca.gov/pipeline/pipeline\">fire marshal's website\u003c/a>, the office's Pipeline Safety Division \"is also responsible for the investigation of all spills, ruptures, fires, or pipeline incidents for cause and determination of probable violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff says because the September spill uncovered no violations, there was no need for state regulators to conduct their own inspection of the pipe afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Cause for Alarm'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/24/pipeline-at-center-of-altamont-pass-oil-spill-also-ruptured-last-september/\" target=\"_blank\">two spills\u003c/a> took place at the border between Alameda and San Joaquin counties on a pipeline that stretches from Coalinga in Fresno County to Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1Y7CgYIFSHfCiilZXgjKY61Ggc14\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the two breaks, San Joaquin County Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/01/lawmaker-wants-answers-after-shell-crude-oil-pipeline-suffers-2nd-rupture-and-spill/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Eggman met with Shell executives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's really cause for alarm up and down that pipeline,\" Eggman said following the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire marshal's office is still investigating the most recent break, which occurred on May 20. That rupture spilled what Shell estimates to be at least 20,000 gallons of crude.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788136/Shell-Pipeline-Company-Sept-16-2015-Rupture-Report-and-Analysis?secret_password=C5CVRS7rs2jwjD5n7Fik\" target=\"_blank\">Read Shell's analysis of the September 2015 pipeline rupture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788848/Det-Norske-Veritas-Metallurgical-Analysis-of-the-September-2015-Shell-Oil-Pipeline-Rupture?secret_password=t8eHzUOnC3QEqnhrIckh\" target=\"_blank\">Read Det Norske Veritas' analysis of the September 2015 pipeline rupture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788523/Office-of-the-State-Fire-Marchal-Report-on-the-Sept-17-2015-Pipeline-Rupture?secret_password=YNy3ioXbzWM9JJj6h5QD\" target=\"_blank\">Read the Office of the State Fire Marshal analysis of the September 2015 pipeline rupture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Initially, Shell said the September break spilled the same amount. Shell spokesman Ray Fisher wrote KQED in an email in late May that 500 barrels had spilled, a volume equivalent to 21,000 gallons. But Shell's own investigative documents show that 900 barrels, or close to 38,000 gallons, spilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's common for oil companies to provide lower estimates on the amount of fuel lost in a pipeline break, according to Kuprewicz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the number turns out to be way different than what you originally said without a good justifiable reason, credibility starts to get lost on all sides,\" he says. \"That's a problem across the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher said the initial figure was based on engineering and field data in September. He said the company updated the estimate in its report to federal regulators in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency response, cleanup and pipeline repairs stemming from the September spill cost $1.2 million, according to Shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pipeline Had Safety Issues\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the first rupture the energy company hired a risk management firm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788848/Det-Norske-Veritas-Metallurgical-Analysis-of-the-September-2015-Shell-Oil-Pipeline-Rupture?secret_password=t8eHzUOnC3QEqnhrIckh\" target=\"_blank\">Det Norske Veritas (DNV)\u003c/a>, to investigate. According to DNV and Shell's documents, the September and May spills were not the only dangerous incidents associated with the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, less than a decade after the pipe was installed, an unspecified defect in the pipe caused a failure on the line. Forty feet of the pipe had to be replaced. Shell says it's unable to find more information about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Records were basic and did not have modern level of report detail,\" Shell's analysis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1998 incident, along with a spill the following year, prompted Cal Fire to place the pipeline on its list of \"high-risk\" lines, a classification that requires a different level of inspections. For the next several years, crews found possible dents, corrosion and grind marks on the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell's Fisher calls those kinds of observations normal and says the company's willingness to point them out represents \"proactive steps to preserve the integrity and reliability of the pipeline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2004, the state removed the line from its list of high-risk pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2015, pumps connected to the pipeline were blocked, resulting in a fire. While Shell said that the fire was a significant event leading up to last September's spill, company officials at the time determined that the fire \"did not likely affect the pipeline from a heat or pressure perspective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Industrywide Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Shell, the September 2015 rupture began at a pre-existing fatigue crack that was 36 inches long and 6 inches wide. A \"longitudinal seam failure\" grew over time in a corroded section of pipe and eventually ruptured after line pressure fluctuated to accommodate different grades of oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11120004\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/pipeline-split-800x335.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of the pipeline longitudinal seam split from the September 2016 rupture.\" width=\"800\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/pipeline-split-800x335.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/pipeline-split-400x167.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/pipeline-split.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the pipeline longitudinal seam split from the September 2016 rupture. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Shell Oil Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The pipeline has been aggressively cycled in the last year of operation,\" Shell's report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea says the kind of cracking involved in the rupture is a common cause for pipeline breaks. \"It is an industrywide problem,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are moving very heavy crude through this pipeline at very high temperatures and they're doing it at very high pressures, and they're alternating those pressures so they're putting a ton of stress on this pipeline,\" adds CBD's Sullivan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell says the needs of the market are responsible, in part, for the pressure cycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ideally, a pipeline would operate at a constant pressure,\" Fisher wrote in an email. \"However, customer demands, especially on common carrier pipelines, dictate loads on the pipeline. These resulting variations in load requirements result in pressure cycling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The September spill led Shell to take \"steps to reduce the pressure cycling of this pipeline,\" Fisher wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just over a month before the September spill, Shell crews conducted in-line inspections of the pipe and reported that there were no problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell's analysis showed that the rupture took place four minutes after crews raised pressure on the pipeline in the middle of the night. More than eight hours later, the company confirmed that the rupture caused a spill with crude oil being released onto pasture land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Holes in Pipe's History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DNV's report speculates that the crack could have developed from in-service operation or when the pipe was transported to the West Coast after it was manufactured, which Shell now says -- contrary to its initial report -- was in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to KQED inquiries, Shell provided several other details of the pipe's history omitted from the report provided to -- and relied upon by -- the Office of the State Fire Marshal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original document said the pipe manufacturer was unknown, for instance. Company spokesman Ray Fisher said in a later email that the pipe was made by Houston's Armco Steel Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, Fisher and the company's report says, the pipe took a circuitous route to California. After Armco made it, the pipe was apparently purchased by and shipped to Columbia Gas, a big East Coast provider of natural gas. For about six years, \"the pipe sat in the yard exposed to elements in Delaware, Maryland or Pennsylvania,\" the company's report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Texaco bought the pipe, which Fisher says was shipped cross-country by rail to Coalinga. The 24-inch pipe, which had a wall thickness of about a quarter-inch, may have suffered a \"transportation fatigue crack\" when it was moved to Coalinga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell's lack of consistent paperwork is part of growing problem in the pipeline industry, according to Kuprewicz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're finding more and more companies that have undergone pipeline rupture failures where all of the sudden records have disappeared or they can't find them,\" said Kuprewicz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shoddy documentation involving a ruptured pipeline was an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/05/08/93305/feds_demand_accurate_gas_pipeline_safety_records?category=bay+area\" target=\"_blank\">issue that came to light\u003c/a> after PG&E's San Bruno disaster in 2010. The incident involved a poorly welded natural gas pipeline, installed in the 1950s, that ruptured and exploded. The blast and subsequent fire killed eight people destroyed 38 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286470710?secret_token=s-TLok3\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inspection Methods Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts and safety advocates also expressed concern that Shell's inspections did not reveal the crack that led to the rupture -- all the more dangerous since a break took place eight months afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crack that eventually led to the September break could have been there in 1990, the year the pipe underwent its last hydrotest, when a section of a line is filled with water at high pressure to detect problems. The flaw was not detected then or in subsequent examinations using other inspection methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the September 2015 spill, Shell conducted inspections every two years on the line using electronic tools that seek pipeline defects, according to the company. Cal Fire says Shell has \"historically\" asked the office for permission to conduct inspections using in-line mechanical probes, instead of hydrotests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires pipelines considered high risk to be hydrotested every year. Pipelines that are at least 10 years old, like the San Pablo Bay Pipeline, are supposed to be hydrotested every three years, unless they get an exemption from the OSFM. In fact, the OSFM prefers the in-line inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120103\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 579px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11120103\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of the clean-up scene after the September 2015 oil pipeline rupture in the Altamont Pass near Tracy.\" width=\"579\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo.jpg 579w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo-400x390.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of the cleanup scene after the September 2015 oil pipeline rupture in the Altamont Pass near Tracy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Hydrotests only test the pipeline integrity at that moment in time,\" says Cal Fire's Tolmachoff. \"In-line inspection tools are capable of detecting anomalies such as dents, gouges, mental loss, etc., that could lead to a release.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts say that the way in which the company is assessing risks on the pipe has not worked well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those internal inspection computers they run through pipelines -- it's pretty well-known in the industry that they have a real hard time identifying this type of crack on those types of seam welds,\" Weimer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the in-line inspection tool didn't spot the crack and two months later or less it ruptured, something's wrong here,\" Kuprewicz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the September spill, Shell conducted more in-line inspections of the pipeline, which found \"no additional defects similar to that which caused the September release,\" Fisher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in June, a month after the pipeline's most recent rupture, Shell conducted a hydro test in the line, the first such exam on the pipe in more than 25 years, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shell has had trouble with this pipeline before,\" Bea says. \"You can expect to see similar trouble with this same pipeline and with others like it again.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State fire officials, charged with ensuring oil pipeline safety, relied on company findings in assessing the first of two incidents near Tracy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1476194202,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":77,"wordCount":2611},"headData":{"title":"Critics Question State Pipeline Oversight After 2 Altamont Oil Spills | KQED","description":"State fire officials, charged with ensuring oil pipeline safety, relied on company findings in assessing the first of two incidents near Tracy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Critics Question State Pipeline Oversight After 2 Altamont Oil Spills","datePublished":"2016-10-10T22:55:35.000Z","dateModified":"2016-10-11T13:56:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11074703 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11074703","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/10/state-outsources-east-bay-pipeline-spill-investigation-to-oil-company/","disqusTitle":"Critics Question State Pipeline Oversight After 2 Altamont Oil Spills","path":"/news/11074703/state-outsources-east-bay-pipeline-spill-investigation-to-oil-company","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Bruno gas pipeline explosion of 2010 brought unprecedented scrutiny to the state’s network of natural gas pipelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, two breaks in an East Bay pipeline have sparked questions about whether the state office charged with overseeing oil pipeline safety is up to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has learned that the state investigation into the rupture of a 24-inch Shell Oil Co. pipeline on the eastern edge of the Bay Area in September 2015 relied heavily on the energy company's own analysis of the incident -- some critics say too heavily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/287080575&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/287080575'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the State Fire Marshal, a division of Cal Fire charged with investigating oil pipeline incidents inside the state, never took possession of the portion of the line that broke and did not conduct its own inspection of the line after it ruptured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In assessing the rupture's cause, the fire marshal's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788523/Office-of-the-State-Fire-Marchal-rport-on-the-Sept-17-2015-Pipeline-Rupture?secret_password=YNy3ioXbzWM9JJj6h5QD\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> merely quoted a three-sentence summary provided by a firm Shell hired to look into the incident. The fire marshal's review failed to document when, where or by whom the pipe was manufactured or how it got to the West Coast decades ago -- a trip that could have weakened the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire marshal's office says the company did not violate state regulations in connection with the rupture and did not levy any penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months later, in May 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/24/pipeline-at-center-of-altamont-pass-oil-spill-also-ruptured-last-september/\" target=\"_blank\">the Shell pipeline broke again\u003c/a> and spilled crude oil in the same area, just off Interstate 580 near Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974514\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 669px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10974514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/shellpipeline.png\" alt=\"Image from Central Valley Water Quality Control Board report on Shell Oil's May 20 pipeline break. Picture shows inactive older pipeline and newer pipeline that ruptured, spilling about 21,000 gallons of oil. \" width=\"669\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/shellpipeline.png 669w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/shellpipeline-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Central Valley Water Quality Control Board report on Shell Oil's May 20 pipeline break. Picture shows inactive older pipeline and newer pipeline that ruptured, spilling about 21,000 gallons of oil. \u003ccite>(Central Valley Water Quality Control Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although state reports say the spills were cleaned up and \"no water was affected,\" each rupture along the company's San Pablo Bay Pipeline, which brings crude oil from the Central Valley to the Bay Area, led to tens of thousands of gallons of crude to spill onto ranch land in the Altamont Pass, alarming environmentalists and prompting concern from at least one state lawmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED obtained Shell's analysis of the break and the fire marshal's report on the incident through a California Public Records Act request, to learn more about the investigation into the Sept. 16, 2015, spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pipeline experts, safety advocates and environmentalists who have reviewed those records say they reveal weaknesses in the way many crude pipelines in California are regulated. They also raise questions about whether the state fire marshal's office is equipped to oversee this part of the oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286469556?secret_token=s-0klrw&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286469556?secret_token=s-0klrw'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inadequate Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says 752 intrastate pipelines are under its jurisdiction. One of the nation's leading experts on pipeline safety says that should change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cal Fire does not have the appropriate tools to regulate and inspect something as sophisticated and intricate as a pipeline,\" says Robert Bea, professor emeritus at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley's College of Engineering. \"For us to turn to our heroes in Cal Fire and expect them to do this is not fair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea says the California Public Utilities Commission and the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration are better suited for such investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The understanding of cracking threats and what are the appropriate assessment methods may not be well understood by state regulators,\" says Richard Kuprewicz, president of Accufacts Inc., a Redmond, Washington-based firm that specializes in pipeline investigations. He notes that part of the cause of the September break was a small crack in the line that expanded over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The California fire marshal used to be considered one of the better state regulators in the country, and then they went through some funding issues,\" says Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Washington-based nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They actually backed away from a lot of their regulatory authority,\" Weimer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cal Fire seems to almost have completely outsourced the investigation into this very serious incident to Shell itself,\" adds Patrick Sullivan, the climate media director with the activist Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a pipeline here that has failed again and again,\" Sullivan says. \"The state ought to be taking a much harder look and do its own hands-on investigation to figure out what's really going on here. Cal Fire doesn't have enough staff, it doesn't have enough resources and it does not have the will to really keep a close eye on pipelines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's director of pipeline safety acknowledged after a major crude oil pipeline rupture last year near Santa Barbara that the agency has been \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/30/patchwork-of-oversight-keep-tabs-of-californias-vast-network-of-oil-pipelines/\" target=\"_blank\">working with a minimum staff\u003c/a> for years -- but Cal Fire emphasizes that its fire marshal's office followed state regulations in investigating last September's Altamont spill and note that Shell commissioned a well-respected third party to investigate the break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire argues that federal law calls for pipeline operators to analyze the cause of accidents involving their lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to the \u003ca href=\"http://osfm.fire.ca.gov/pipeline/pipeline\">fire marshal's website\u003c/a>, the office's Pipeline Safety Division \"is also responsible for the investigation of all spills, ruptures, fires, or pipeline incidents for cause and determination of probable violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff says because the September spill uncovered no violations, there was no need for state regulators to conduct their own inspection of the pipe afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Cause for Alarm'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/24/pipeline-at-center-of-altamont-pass-oil-spill-also-ruptured-last-september/\" target=\"_blank\">two spills\u003c/a> took place at the border between Alameda and San Joaquin counties on a pipeline that stretches from Coalinga in Fresno County to Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1Y7CgYIFSHfCiilZXgjKY61Ggc14\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the two breaks, San Joaquin County Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/01/lawmaker-wants-answers-after-shell-crude-oil-pipeline-suffers-2nd-rupture-and-spill/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Eggman met with Shell executives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's really cause for alarm up and down that pipeline,\" Eggman said following the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire marshal's office is still investigating the most recent break, which occurred on May 20. That rupture spilled what Shell estimates to be at least 20,000 gallons of crude.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788136/Shell-Pipeline-Company-Sept-16-2015-Rupture-Report-and-Analysis?secret_password=C5CVRS7rs2jwjD5n7Fik\" target=\"_blank\">Read Shell's analysis of the September 2015 pipeline rupture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788848/Det-Norske-Veritas-Metallurgical-Analysis-of-the-September-2015-Shell-Oil-Pipeline-Rupture?secret_password=t8eHzUOnC3QEqnhrIckh\" target=\"_blank\">Read Det Norske Veritas' analysis of the September 2015 pipeline rupture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788523/Office-of-the-State-Fire-Marchal-Report-on-the-Sept-17-2015-Pipeline-Rupture?secret_password=YNy3ioXbzWM9JJj6h5QD\" target=\"_blank\">Read the Office of the State Fire Marshal analysis of the September 2015 pipeline rupture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Initially, Shell said the September break spilled the same amount. Shell spokesman Ray Fisher wrote KQED in an email in late May that 500 barrels had spilled, a volume equivalent to 21,000 gallons. But Shell's own investigative documents show that 900 barrels, or close to 38,000 gallons, spilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's common for oil companies to provide lower estimates on the amount of fuel lost in a pipeline break, according to Kuprewicz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the number turns out to be way different than what you originally said without a good justifiable reason, credibility starts to get lost on all sides,\" he says. \"That's a problem across the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher said the initial figure was based on engineering and field data in September. He said the company updated the estimate in its report to federal regulators in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency response, cleanup and pipeline repairs stemming from the September spill cost $1.2 million, according to Shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pipeline Had Safety Issues\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the first rupture the energy company hired a risk management firm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/326788848/Det-Norske-Veritas-Metallurgical-Analysis-of-the-September-2015-Shell-Oil-Pipeline-Rupture?secret_password=t8eHzUOnC3QEqnhrIckh\" target=\"_blank\">Det Norske Veritas (DNV)\u003c/a>, to investigate. According to DNV and Shell's documents, the September and May spills were not the only dangerous incidents associated with the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, less than a decade after the pipe was installed, an unspecified defect in the pipe caused a failure on the line. Forty feet of the pipe had to be replaced. Shell says it's unable to find more information about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Records were basic and did not have modern level of report detail,\" Shell's analysis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1998 incident, along with a spill the following year, prompted Cal Fire to place the pipeline on its list of \"high-risk\" lines, a classification that requires a different level of inspections. For the next several years, crews found possible dents, corrosion and grind marks on the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell's Fisher calls those kinds of observations normal and says the company's willingness to point them out represents \"proactive steps to preserve the integrity and reliability of the pipeline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2004, the state removed the line from its list of high-risk pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2015, pumps connected to the pipeline were blocked, resulting in a fire. While Shell said that the fire was a significant event leading up to last September's spill, company officials at the time determined that the fire \"did not likely affect the pipeline from a heat or pressure perspective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Industrywide Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Shell, the September 2015 rupture began at a pre-existing fatigue crack that was 36 inches long and 6 inches wide. A \"longitudinal seam failure\" grew over time in a corroded section of pipe and eventually ruptured after line pressure fluctuated to accommodate different grades of oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11120004\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/pipeline-split-800x335.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of the pipeline longitudinal seam split from the September 2016 rupture.\" width=\"800\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/pipeline-split-800x335.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/pipeline-split-400x167.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/pipeline-split.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the pipeline longitudinal seam split from the September 2016 rupture. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Shell Oil Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The pipeline has been aggressively cycled in the last year of operation,\" Shell's report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea says the kind of cracking involved in the rupture is a common cause for pipeline breaks. \"It is an industrywide problem,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are moving very heavy crude through this pipeline at very high temperatures and they're doing it at very high pressures, and they're alternating those pressures so they're putting a ton of stress on this pipeline,\" adds CBD's Sullivan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell says the needs of the market are responsible, in part, for the pressure cycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ideally, a pipeline would operate at a constant pressure,\" Fisher wrote in an email. \"However, customer demands, especially on common carrier pipelines, dictate loads on the pipeline. These resulting variations in load requirements result in pressure cycling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The September spill led Shell to take \"steps to reduce the pressure cycling of this pipeline,\" Fisher wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just over a month before the September spill, Shell crews conducted in-line inspections of the pipe and reported that there were no problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell's analysis showed that the rupture took place four minutes after crews raised pressure on the pipeline in the middle of the night. More than eight hours later, the company confirmed that the rupture caused a spill with crude oil being released onto pasture land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Holes in Pipe's History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DNV's report speculates that the crack could have developed from in-service operation or when the pipe was transported to the West Coast after it was manufactured, which Shell now says -- contrary to its initial report -- was in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to KQED inquiries, Shell provided several other details of the pipe's history omitted from the report provided to -- and relied upon by -- the Office of the State Fire Marshal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original document said the pipe manufacturer was unknown, for instance. Company spokesman Ray Fisher said in a later email that the pipe was made by Houston's Armco Steel Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, Fisher and the company's report says, the pipe took a circuitous route to California. After Armco made it, the pipe was apparently purchased by and shipped to Columbia Gas, a big East Coast provider of natural gas. For about six years, \"the pipe sat in the yard exposed to elements in Delaware, Maryland or Pennsylvania,\" the company's report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Texaco bought the pipe, which Fisher says was shipped cross-country by rail to Coalinga. The 24-inch pipe, which had a wall thickness of about a quarter-inch, may have suffered a \"transportation fatigue crack\" when it was moved to Coalinga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell's lack of consistent paperwork is part of growing problem in the pipeline industry, according to Kuprewicz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're finding more and more companies that have undergone pipeline rupture failures where all of the sudden records have disappeared or they can't find them,\" said Kuprewicz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shoddy documentation involving a ruptured pipeline was an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/05/08/93305/feds_demand_accurate_gas_pipeline_safety_records?category=bay+area\" target=\"_blank\">issue that came to light\u003c/a> after PG&E's San Bruno disaster in 2010. The incident involved a poorly welded natural gas pipeline, installed in the 1950s, that ruptured and exploded. The blast and subsequent fire killed eight people destroyed 38 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286470710?secret_token=s-TLok3&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286470710?secret_token=s-TLok3'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inspection Methods Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts and safety advocates also expressed concern that Shell's inspections did not reveal the crack that led to the rupture -- all the more dangerous since a break took place eight months afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crack that eventually led to the September break could have been there in 1990, the year the pipe underwent its last hydrotest, when a section of a line is filled with water at high pressure to detect problems. The flaw was not detected then or in subsequent examinations using other inspection methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the September 2015 spill, Shell conducted inspections every two years on the line using electronic tools that seek pipeline defects, according to the company. Cal Fire says Shell has \"historically\" asked the office for permission to conduct inspections using in-line mechanical probes, instead of hydrotests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires pipelines considered high risk to be hydrotested every year. Pipelines that are at least 10 years old, like the San Pablo Bay Pipeline, are supposed to be hydrotested every three years, unless they get an exemption from the OSFM. In fact, the OSFM prefers the in-line inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120103\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 579px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11120103\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of the clean-up scene after the September 2015 oil pipeline rupture in the Altamont Pass near Tracy.\" width=\"579\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo.jpg 579w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo-400x390.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/oil-spill-photo-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of the cleanup scene after the September 2015 oil pipeline rupture in the Altamont Pass near Tracy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Hydrotests only test the pipeline integrity at that moment in time,\" says Cal Fire's Tolmachoff. \"In-line inspection tools are capable of detecting anomalies such as dents, gouges, mental loss, etc., that could lead to a release.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts say that the way in which the company is assessing risks on the pipe has not worked well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those internal inspection computers they run through pipelines -- it's pretty well-known in the industry that they have a real hard time identifying this type of crack on those types of seam welds,\" Weimer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the in-line inspection tool didn't spot the crack and two months later or less it ruptured, something's wrong here,\" Kuprewicz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the September spill, Shell conducted more in-line inspections of the pipeline, which found \"no additional defects similar to that which caused the September release,\" Fisher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in June, a month after the pipeline's most recent rupture, Shell conducted a hydro test in the line, the first such exam on the pipe in more than 25 years, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shell has had trouble with this pipeline before,\" Bea says. \"You can expect to see similar trouble with this same pipeline and with others like it again.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11074703/state-outsources-east-bay-pipeline-spill-investigation-to-oil-company","authors":["258"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_19542","news_950","news_20028"],"featImg":"news_10967212","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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