CPC Admits Salt River Oil Spill Caused by Underground Diesel Pipeline Corrosion Leaks

In response to the recent oil pollution incident at the Xin Zhu City Inner Lake Village's Salt Harbor Creek, the Taiwan CPC Corporation officially responded and explained the situation last night. According to CPC's preliminary investigation and examination, the source of the river pollution was found to be a case of underground diesel pipeline corrosion, resulting in oil leakage. In response, the CPC team immediately took emergency measures after receiving the report and confirming the situation, completing the full replacement of the damaged section of the pipeline on the same day to block the spread of pollution sources and minimize the impact on local ecology and residents' lives.

Pipe corrosion and sandhole phenomena have long been a potential risk in industrial and energy pipeline management. As the operation age of infrastructure increases, pipelines buried underground or in specific environments often face material aging and corrosion challenges due to factors such as soil properties, underground water levels, environmental humidity, or metal fatigue. This recent Salt Harbor Creek incident highlights the importance of pipeline daily inspections, cathodic protection engineering, and old pipeline retirement and upgrade. How to use high-tech detection methods to detect small sandholes or wall thickness variations in advance is a crucial issue that domestic large energy and petrochemical companies must balance between operational safety and environmental protection.

In response to public concerns about the cause of the accident and subsequent accountability, CPC stated that it has conducted a thorough analysis of the fundamental cause of the pipeline sandhole formation and expects to complete the comprehensive investigation report by the end of August this year. This report will not only clarify the precise physical and environmental causes of the corrosion event but also serve as an important reference for CPC's review of its current pipeline maintenance standard operating procedures (SOP) and strengthening of the nationwide old pipeline preventive replacement strategy to prevent similar events from occurring.

In recent years, with the public's growing demands for environmental protection and corporate social responsibility (CSR), pipeline safety has ceased to be an internal operation cost issue for enterprises, directly affecting corporate image and social trustworthiness. Energy suppliers, while pursuing stable supply and distribution efficiency, must invest more resources in digitalized management of infrastructure and risk prevention. CPC's timely handling of the incident and public commitment to transparent investigation last night has helped to clarify the truth and respond to social expectations, and the investigation report to be released by the end of August will also serve as an important indicator for reviewing state-owned enterprises' fulfillment of occupational health and safety and environmental protection commitments.