The $5.2 billion Keystone oil pipeline’s spill shut down is blocking thousands of gallons of Canadian oil from the U.S.
The Keystone Oil pipeline, which is approximately 2700 miles, was closed on Tuesday morning after it was torn in Northern Dakota, stopping the flow of thousands of gallons of crude oil from Canada to refineries in the United States
South Bo, a liquid pipeline company that runs the pipeline, said it closed the pipeline after discovering the control center discovery systems a decrease in the system. The spill is limited to an agricultural field in a rural area, about 60 miles southwest of Fargo.
The company said: “The affected part has been isolated, operating resources and containing the site have been filled.” “Our primary focus now is the safety of employees on the site and the risk reduction on the environment.”
The pipeline was transferred 624,000 barrels per day in 2024, according to Canadian organizers. 2689 miles (4327 km) from Albert, Canada, to Texas.
It was not clear why the underground pipeline or the amount of crude oil was launched in the field. Bill Swiss, director of the North Dakota company, said that the employee who works on the site near Fort Ransom listened to a “mechanical sensation” and closed the pipeline within about two minutes.
Suez said that the oil appeared about 300 yards (274 meters) south of the pump station in the Ward field on emergency staff.
He said that no person or structures were affected by the driver. He said that the nearby flow that is flowing only during a part of the year was not affected, but it was banned and isolated as a preventive measure. Pipelines and managing dangerous materials send a team to investigate the cause of the leakage.
Fort Ransum in a mountainous area of forests in southeast Dakota known as stunning views.
Suez said it is unclear any rate of 30 -inch pipeline (0.8 meters) flowing, but even in two minutes, “it will have a fairly good size.” “But … we had a lot of major spills,” he said, including the same pipeline a few years ago in the province of Walsh, Northern Dakota.
“I don’t think it will be huge,” Swiss said.
The Keystone pipeline was created in 2010 at a cost of $ 5.2 billion and carries crude oil through Saskatchean and Manitoba via North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri to the refineries in Illinois, Aklahoma and Tixas. Although the pipeline was created by TC Energy, it is now run by South Bow as of 2024.
It was a proposed extension of the pipeline called Keystone XL transporting crude oil to refineries on the Gulf coast, but it was eventually abandoned by the company in 2021 after years of protests from environmental activists and indigenous societies on environmental concerns.
In December 2022, approximately 13,000 barrels of pre -oil from the keystone line in Kansas to Khor crossed the pastures. An engineering consultant company said that the curvature of the pipeline on the site was “paid” since its installation in 2010, most likely due to the construction activity that changes the land surrounding the tube. TC Energy said that the defective welding in the line curve caused an aggravating crack over time.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
2025-04-08 20:35:00
