Seaway Restarts One of Two Pipelines Shut After Spill -- 2nd Update
October 24 2016 - 4:55PM
Dow Jones News
By Dan Molinski
Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPD) resumed pumping Monday on
one of two major north-south oil pipelines that were shut down
after an oil spill in Oklahoma.
The Seaway Crude Pipeline Co., a 50/50 joint venture between
Enterprise and Enbridge Inc. (ENB), said the 400,000-barrel-a-day
Legacy pipeline remains closed after the Sunday night spill while
investigators try to figure out the cause and quantity of oil
released. It said in the statement the adjacent,
450,000-barrel-a-day Loop pipeline, which was also shut as a
precaution, "has resumed service."
Both pipelines run between Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, south of
Houston.
The spill happened in an industrial area of Cushing, Okla., the
small town that is the U.S. hub for crude oil. About 60 million
barrels of crude oil are stored in Cushing in massive tanks and
pipelines. Seaway said the section where the oil spilled has a
capacity to hold 50,000 barrels of oil but said "the actual amount
of crude oil released will be significantly less."
It said all of the crude oil spilled was contained in a
retention pond at Enbridge's facility, adding that workers with
trucks are collecting the spilled oil to put it back into storage
tanks onsite. It said there were no injuries or fire related to the
incident and that there was never a threat to the public.
The oil-pipeline spill and shutdown comes one month after a
major gasoline pipeline run by Colonial Pipeline Co. had to halt
pumping for a couple of weeks due to a spill in Alabama.
Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 24, 2016 16:40 ET (20:40 GMT)
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