ML20211J969

Monitoring of Lng & Liquefied Petroleum Gas Shipping & Activities on Delaware River, Rept

ML20211J969
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Site:	Hope Creek
Issue date:	10/31/1986
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HOPE' CREEK GENERATING STATION OPERATING LICENSE NO. NPF-57 MONITORING OF LNG AND LPG SHIPPING AND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES ON THE DELAWARE RIVER FINAL REPORT I

Prepared in Response to Amendment No. 5 Construction Permit No. CPPR-120' Public Service Electric and Gas Company October 1986 DOCKET NO. 50-354 8611110543 861104 PDR ADOCK 05000354 R PDR 1

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2.0 INTRODUCTION

- 3.0 YEARLY REPORT

~3.i -NUMBER OF SHIPS _

s 3.2 CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY

3.3 CONCLUSION

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SUMMARY

-On? November 4, 1974,,the Atomic Energy Commission issued a: Construction PermitL(CP) for the construction of the Hope Creek Generating Station 'in Salem County, New ~ Jersey.-

The Hope. Creek. site is located on the Delaware-River-estuary

-x near the-southern end of,an artificial peninsula-known Las Artificial Island.-

' Amendment-No. 5 to the Construction Permit. requires PSE&G

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to monitor activities related to.the shipment of' liquefied natural gas'(LNG)'and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) on the Delaware River. This monitoring. included shipping rates of liquefied; flammable gases and various typestof.

construction activity. The chemicals classified as liquefied flammable. gases are propane, butane,.butadiene, vinyl ~

chloride and liquefied natural gas.

Monitoring results show that total shipping of liquefied flammable-gas.has decreased from the~1evel anticipated

during the construction permit stage and remains below

'the acceptable. upper limit of: probability established by the NRC that Hope Creek Generating Station will be affected by.a flammable. vapor cloud. In. addition, no.

new-or proposed construction which could have an affect onLthe probability calculations has apparently been authorized.

2.0 INTRODUCTION

Amendment No. 5-to CPPR-120 was initiated due to concerns that a flammable vapor cloud could reach the Hope Creek

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Generating Station in the' event of~a waterborne transpor-tation accident and affect the safe operation of the Hope Creek. facility. 'As stated in the Hope Creek SER, the initial safety evaluation determined that the projected maximum value of 420 ship transits per~ year would not

.present a hazard to the safety of the~ Hope Creek facility and estimated a total probability of flammable gas clouds at Artificial Island of'1.6 x 10-7 per year based on this level of shipping.

Amendment No. 5 requires monitoring to ensure that this probability is not exceeded. Activities of interest are those which might result in an increased rate of shipping or which could cause an increased probability of accident occurrence.

An increase in the shipping rate may occur when an existing facility increases its importation rate or constructs new storage or refining facilities. PSE&G has monitored these events by keeping in touch with local authorities, contacting those refineries and import terminals on the Delaware River which are capable of receiving liquid fuel and by reviewing the monthly "Public Notices" issued by the Department of the Army - Philadelphia District, Corps of Engineers."

Although there is currently no LNG shipping on the Delaware River, there have been proposals in the past to initiate such shipping. All have either been withdrawn or rejected by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Consequently, there are currently no outstanding proposals for an LNG' facility that could possibly affect the Hope Creek Generating Station. PSE&G is continuously monitoring the applications received by FERC relating to LNG terminals.

Other types of construction activities on the Delaware River may also result in an increased risk to the Hope Creek Generating Station. It has been estimated (PSE&G, Dockets 50-354 and 50-355 before the NRC, exhibits 9, 10, 11) that a flammable vapor cloud which forms as a result of an' accidental spill of a liquid fuel on water could travel up to 12 miles. Therefore, PSE&G monitored for construction of potential river obstacles or rammable objects-within a distance of 12 miles up or downstream of Hope Creek. Currently, with the exception of one high voltage transmission tower and a submerged shipwreck, there are no rammable objects in the vicinity of the shipping channel near Hope Creek.

The calculation of the probability of a flammable cloud reaching Hope Creek was made on a biannual basis. It was last calculated for the calendar year 1983 and reported in our submission dated April 19, 1985. Our February 6, 1986 submission also considered possible changes in this probability.

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- e The probab'ility calculation'is. based on a' series of conditional

', probabilities.- These_ probabilities involve the: expected-number'of. accidents per mile.of-riverztransit,-the probability-

, that~a spill willLresult given that an accident'has occurred,1 the probability that a vapor. cloud will' form given that.

there has-been a spill, and the meteorological-factor.

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upper limit of'the probability that the Hope Creek Generating Station will be affected by a-flammable vapor cloud formed as a result.of an accident on the river.. In an estimate

in which the factors are determined based on conservative approximations, the number of incidents cannot exceed

10-6'per year.

3.0 YEARLY REPORT 3.l! Total Number of Ships Per Year 1- An estimate of the total number.of ships

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during-the period March 1985.through April 11, 1986-and carrying each'of the

j. designated cargoes is_shown on Tables

-1 and 2. Table 1 shows the liquid flammable gases imported into the Ports of Philadelphia F and Table 2-shows those exported. This data is also graphically depicted in 7

the figures appearing at the end of this report. The data were obtained from

, the. Delaware River' Port Authority through j; a computer database of shipping manifests.

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Tab.les~1 and 2 also present the load / discharge

date, quantity, product, vessel, origin /destin- i

ationland, where possible, _the importer / exporter.

Data for January and February 1985 were l not available from this database.

As indicated in Table 3, the total number of ships of liquefied flammable gas passing Hope Creek has generally decreased since

. monitoring began in 1977. The slight i

g increase'in number of ships shown for 1985-86 is due-to the extra 3 months included in the total.

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- -3.2- Construction Activity The construction activity along the Delaware River was monitored through the review of' monthly "Public Notices" issued by the Department-of the~ Army, Philadelphia District Corps of Engineers, and by. contacting varaous-facilities located upstream of the1 plant.

The facilities listed in Table 4 were last contacted in" late 1985 and either.had no

' plans to increase the capacity of their off-loading facilities or did.not plan to construct receiving facilities.for liquefied

. flammable gases.

3.3+ Conclusions

PSE&G has monitored existing and' planned construction , and waterborne shipment-ofLliquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum ga's (LPG) on the Delaware River since 1977. .No'ma'jor' liquefied flammable

- gas facilities have been constucted, nor are planned for the Delaware-River. In no year did-the number of ship-transits even approach the projected maximum value of 420 ship transits per year that was-

, determined not to present a hazard to the t-safety of the Hope Creek facility in the

! initial safety evaluation'and in the Hope Creek Safety Evaluation Report (SER).

As indicated in Table 3, there have been.

no shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG)-

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l, Also, no vinyl chloride has been shipped l past Hope Creek since 1978.

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The NRC staff determined at the construction permit stage of review and again in the SER, that the total probability of propane, butane, LPG, and LPG flammable gas clouds at Artificial Island was 1.6 x 10-7 per year. Using 30 as the nine year average total number of liquefied flammable gas shipments per year (Table 3), the revised probability.is 4.69 x 10-9 per year.

Therefore, as previously concluded by the NRC staff, the probability of waterborne transportation accidents causing radiological consequences.in excess of the guidelines of 10CFR100 remains within the acceptance criteria of SRP Section 2.2.3.

Construction Permit CPPR-120 for Hope Creek Generating Station was converted into Operating License No. NPF-57 on April 11, 1986.

With the conversion of the construction permit into an operating license, the mon-itoring and reporting requirements of Amendment No. 5 expire. Thus, this is the final report on LNG and LPG shipping and construction activities on the Delaware River.

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TABLE 1 - LIQUEFIED FLAMMABLE l GAS SHIPMENTS ON DELAWARE RIVER.

MARCH 1985 - APRIL 11, 1986 ,

-IMPORT CARGOS Discharge Quantity Date (STONS) Product Vessel- Origin Importer-I 3/26/85 6,122 Butadiene Simon Netherlands -

4/18/85 1,857 Butadiene Alessandro Volta. Belgium -

5/17/85 19,968 Butane Lincolnshire Saudia Arabia Sun Transport 6/1/85 2,314 Butadiene Luigi Casale Spain -

6/9/85 3,309 Butadiene Igloo Moss United Kingdom -

6/10/85 2,313 Butadiene . Sally Maersk Spain -

6/19/85 1,864 Butadiene Sofie Maersk ' Spain -

7/16/85 4,248 Butadiene Susan Maersk Spain -

8/5/85 2,315 Butadiene Olga Maersk Spain -

9/6/85 2,326 Butadiene Hermion Netherlands Texaco 9/22/85 7,603 Butane Lincolnshire United Kingdom Chevron 9/30/85 2,970' Butadiene Gas Mariner Netherlands -

10/25/85 2,327 Butadiene Epsilongas . Netherlands -

10/31/85 9,680 Butane Mundogas Pacific United' Kingdom -

12/5/85 1,774 Butane Concordia Fjord France Total Intl.

12/20/85 2,314 Butadiene~ 'Inge Maersk Spain Keer Maurer

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12/21/85 9,566 Butane- 'Gazana United Kingdom. A'vant Petrol.

12/26/85 2,239 Butadiene Igloo Moss United Kingdom 'ICI Americas

12/26/85 41,977 Butane Gas Enterprise Saudia Arabia P.B. Gas Intl . -

12/30/85 6,235 Butane Susan Maersk United Kingdom Mundogas 1/2/86 2,551 Butadiene Osco Cecilia Netherlands -

! 1/3/86 46,398_ Butane' Golar Frost Saudia Arabia Sun Intl.

1/16/86 2,887 Butadiene Svand Maersk ' Spain ICI Americas 2/3/86 9,450 Butane Gazana United Kingdom Tranogas

& Petrochem-2/16/86 2,274 Butadiene Olga Maersk Spain Keer-Maurer i

2/16/86 2,309 Butadiene Olga Maersk' Spain -

2/25/86 2,777 Butane Mundogas Europe United Kingdom -

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Load Quantity Date (STONS) Product Vessel Destinaticn Exporter 3/22/85 1 Propane Nurnberg Express Germany Scott Environmental 4/2/85 774 Propane Simon Gas Canada Tropigas 5/9/85 8,816 Propane Oluf Maersk Sweden _

6/6/85 705 Propane Fred Billups Bermuda' Tropigas 6/23/85 881 Propane Fred Billups Bermuda Tropigas 9/9/85 755 Propane Caribbean Venture Bahamas Tropigas 9/9/85 950 Propane Caribbean Venture Bermuda Tropigas 9/12/85 1 Propane Brussel United Kingdom STP 3/7/86 111 Propane Fred Billups Jamaica Tropigas 3/7/86 1527 Propane Pred Billups Bahamas Tropigas

TABLE 3. LIQUEFIED FLAMMABLE GAS SHIPMENTS ON DELAVARE RIVER, 1/1/77 THROUGH 4/11/86 Total Number of Ships Vinyl Year Propane Butane Butadiene Chloride LNG Total 1977 1 10 10 25 0 46 1978 5 10 1 25 0 41 1979 1 10 13 0 0 24 1980 2 9 12 0 0 23 1981 3 8 6 0 0 17 1982 0 8 6 0 0 14 1983 9 4 19 0 0 32 1984 8 8 16 0 0 32 1985-1986 10 11 17 0 0 38 TOTAL 0 78 100 50 0 228 NOTE: 1985-1986 data includes March 1985 through April 11,.1986 only 1

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TABLE 4-LPG FACILITIES ON THE DELAWARE RIVER

1. Atlantic Petroleum Company (Formerly ARCO Marine)

Foot of Island Road Philadelphia, PA 19153 Robert Ryan, Pipeline Supervisor (215)365-6688 Future Correspondence:

Atlantic Refinery and Marketing Corooration Centre Square East 1500 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 Attention: Traf fic and LPG Coordinator

2. British Petroleum Oil Company P.O. Box 428 Marcus Hook, PA 19061 Robert S. Yurko, Operations Superintendant (215)494-3600

3. British Petroleum Oil Company P.O. Box 71 Paulsboro, NJ 08066 Houston Johnson, Terminal Manager (609)423-4000 4.

Chevron Oil Company (Formerly Gulf Oil Company)

Girard Point, PA 19145 t

E. E. Schoeberlein, Refinery Manager *

(215)339-7233 5.

Chevron Oil Company (Formerly Gulf Oil P_roducts Company)

Philadelphia Refinery P.O. Box 7408 Philadelphia, PA 19101 Rudy Koziol, Operations Coordinator (215)339-7450

6. CITGO Petroleum Corporation P.O. Box 171 Pennsauken, NJ 08110 Ray Smith, Terminal Manager (609)963-8470

. 7 Coastal Eagle Point Oil Company (Formerly Texaco Oil Co.)

Eagle Point Facility Box 1000 Westville, NJ 08093 George Orescan, Plant Manager (6091845-8000

8. Mantua Chemical Terminal Corporation Crown Point Road Thorofare, NJ 08086 George Gagloff, Facility Manager (609)423-5400

9. Mobil 011 Company Paulsboro, NJ 08066 Dale E. Choate, Refinery. Manager (609)423-1040

10. Sun oil Company Marcus Hook, PA 19061 Charles Phillips, Superindendant - Transfer & Shipping (215)447-1000

11. . Texaco Oil Company (Formerly Getty Oil Company Delaware City, DE 19706 R. G. Soehlke, Refinery Manager (302)834-6200 i e

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