Estimated 500,000 Gallons of Oil Spill in Keystone Pipeline Burst
WASHINGTON, Kansas—Cleanup efforts continued this week following one of the worst oil pipeline failures in Kansas history.
Canada-based TC Energy reported the company had recovered nearly 12,000 of 14,000 barrels of crude from the Keystone Pipeline spill from Mill Creek in Washington County.
However, the company said the cleanup is far from over as it works to determine the cause of the pipeline rupture on Dec. 7.
The incident dumped 14,000 barrels—approximately 500,000 gallons—of diluent bitumen oil into Mill Creek, near Washington, Kansas (population 1,071).
A map of the temporary above-ground hose bypass system in Washington County, Kansas, on Dec. 30, 2022. (Courtesy of TC Energy)
“We know that the line was operating at the time of the incident. We have ruled out a third-party strike as the cause,” TC Energy said in a statement….