TransCanada Corp’s 591,000 barrel per day Keystone pipeline will likely remain shut until the weekend, a spokesman said on Tuesday, following a 500-barrel oil spill at a North Dakota pumping station on Saturday.
Terry Cunha, a spokesman for TransCanada, said in an email that the pipeline, which takes Alberta oil to Patoka and Wood River, Illinois, and the oil storage hub of Cushing, Oklahoma, won’t reopen as soon as first expected.
The company is inspecting some fittings at all its pumping stations after one at the Ludden pump station about 65 km (40 miles) southwest of Milnor, North Dakota, failed at the weekend, spilling oil within the facility.
