TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline leaks 5,000 bbl in South Dakota

Nov. 17, 2017
TransCanada Corp. shut down its Keystone pipeline at about 6 a.m. CST Nov. 16 after a pressure drop was detected in its operating system resulting from an oil leak that is now under investigation. The estimated volume of the leak is 5,000 bbl. The section of pipe along a right-of-way roughly 35 miles south of the Ludden pump station in Marshall County (about 3 miles south of Amherst, SD) was isolated within 15 min, TransCanada reported. 

TransCanada Corp. shut down its Keystone pipeline at about 6 a.m. CST Nov. 16 after a pressure drop was detected in its operating system resulting from an oil leak that is now under investigation. The estimated volume of the leak is 5,000 bbl. The section of pipe along a right-of-way roughly 35 miles south of the Ludden pump station in Marshall County (about 3 miles south of Amherst, SD) was isolated within 15 min, TransCanada reported.

TransCanada is providing updates to state and federal regulators, including the US Pipelines & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the National Response Center.

The company expects Keystone to remain shut from Hardisty, Alta., to Cushing, Okla., and Wood River-Patoka, Ill., while response is under way. Keystone MarketLink, between Cushing and the Gulf Coast, continues to operate normally.

Nebraska’s Public Service Commission is scheduled Nov. 20 to release its decision on passage of the system’s Keystone XL expansion through the state.