From: Los Angeles Times
Federal pipeline safety regulators Friday issued a series of warnings
to the Texas owners of an oil pipeline that ruptured and spilled as
many as 143,000 gallons of crude along the Santa Barbara Coast in May.
Federal
inspectors found two "probable" violations of federal safety
regulations during inspections of Lines 901 and 903, which together
connect offshore platforms off the Santa Barbara Coast to Bakersfield,
in 2013 and 2014.
Among the inspectors' more serious findings, Plains All American
Pipeline failed to keep adequate records of safety evaluations performed
on the pipeline system. Though the findings are separate from the
investigation into the May 19 oil spill, they point to lax safety
oversight on the part of Plains. MORE
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