Olympic Pipeline Company

The pipeline was owned and operated by the Olympic Pipeline Company, but operation was subcontracted to another company, Equilon, although the 2002 NTSB report says that Equilon disputed this assertion - Equilon said it was not responsible for pipeline operations and that it only loaned employees to Olympic. 

Olympic Pipeline Company s inadequate evaluation of online pipeline inspection results. 

Olympic Pipeline Company s failure to test, under approximate operating conditions, all safety devices associated with the new Bayview Terminal. 

Olympic Pipeline Company s failure to investigate and correct the conditions leading to the repeated unintended closing of the Bayview inlet isolation valve. 

Olympic Pipeline Company s practice of performing database development work on the SCADA system while the systan was being used to operate the pipeline, which led to the system becoming non-responsive at a oitical time during pipeline operations. 

A separate incident on an Olympic pipeline led, on September 17, 1996, to the Washington Department of Ecology ordering Olympic to carry out further remote inspection work, including the use of a diverse (mechanical) measurement technique called caliper tools . This led, on January 15, 1997, to another inspection of the pipeline done by a different company, Enduro, using the caliper tool inspection... 

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