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The Keystone Pipeline oil spill occurred on December 7, 2022, when a leak in the Keystone Pipeline released 13 [1],000 barrels of oil into a creek in Washington County, Kansas. [2] The leak is the largest in the United States since the 2013 North Dakota pipeline spill and the largest in the history of the Keystone Pipeline. [3] [4] [5]
The pipeline was shut down in the U.S. by the Biden Administration. The U.S. portion of the Keystone Pipeline included 1,744 kilometres (1,084 mi) of new, 30-inch-diameter (760 mm) pipeline in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. [28] The pipeline has a minimum ground cover of 4 feet (1.2 m). [29]
The spills came as TC Energy was planning to build the Keystone XL project to expand the amount of crude the pipeline system would carry into the U.S. Severe oil leaks worsened Keystone pipeline ...
September 20 – A contractor's digging equipment hit & ruptured a crude oil gathering pipeline in Williams County, North Dakota, spilling about 8,400 gallons of crude oil. [30] December 7 – The Keystone Pipeline leaked about 588,000 gallons of tar sands crude into a creek, in Washington County, Kansas. This is the biggest oil spill in ...
The spill occurred near the city of Washington, Kansas, and caused nationwide oil prices to rise temporarily. 14,000-barrel oil spill in Kansas temporarily shuts down Keystone Pipeline. Prices go up
More than 650,000 gallons of oil were recovered during a cleanup effort in Kansas that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared complete on Tuesday.. The Keystone Pipeline rupture ...
The coveted permit granted in 2007 allowed TC Energy, then known as TransCanada, to use a higher-than-standard rate of pressure for Keystone in rural areas, according to U.S. regulatory documents ...
A U.S. regulator on Tuesday ordered that a segment of the Keystone pipeline that spilled more than 9,000 barrels of crude in rural North Dakota remain shut until operator TC Energy submits a ...