Regulators OK reopening of Kansas pipeline segment

The operator of a pipeline that spilled 14,000 barrels of heavy crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek said it has federal permission to reopen the repaired segment.

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State News

December 27, 2022 - 2:15 PM

TC Energy response staging area on Dec. 10, 2022, in Washington County, Kansas. Photo by (TC Energy Corporation)

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The operator of a pipeline that spilled about 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of heavy crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek said Friday that it has permission from U.S. government regulators to reopen the repaired segment where the rupture occurred.

Canada-based TC Energy did not say exactly when it would reopen the section of its Keystone pipeline system from Steele City near the Nebraska-Kansas border to Cushing in northern Oklahoma. The company said it will have crews working through the Christmas holiday and also conducting “rigorous testing and…

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