TransCanada recovers 44,400 gallons of oil from Keystone pipeline spill site

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(Reuters) - TransCanada Corp said on Friday it has recovered 44,400 gallons, or 1,057 barrels, of oil from the Keystone pipeline spill site at Amherst, South Dakota.

The company had shut down its 590,000 barrel-per-day Keystone pipeline, which links Alberta’s oil sands to U.S. refineries, on Nov. 16 after a 5,000-barrel spill. It has not yet set an expected restart date for the pipeline, which is one of Canada’s main crude export pipelines.

Additional excavation will be conducted beyond Sunday for soil remediation purposes, the Calgary-based company said, adding, it has about 170 personnel round-the-clock on the site engaged in clean-up activities.

Preliminary inspections of the damaged section will be completed on site by both TransCanada and U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) staff, then sent to Washington, D.C., for an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board’s Metallurgical Laboratory, the company said.


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-transcanada-keystone-spill/transcanada-recovers-44400-gallons-of-oil-from-keystone-pipeline-spill-site-idUSKBN1DP012



An aerial view shows the darkened ground of an oil spill which shut down the Keystone pipeline between Canada and the United States, located in an agricultural area near Amherst, South Dakota. REUTERS/Dronebase

[Sneederbunk]

1. So they say.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. So where is the missing

181,00 gallons? 5000 x 45 gallons per barrel in Oil measure =225,00 gallons - 44,000 = 181,00. Nothing here to see,go away,yah right. Knowing the area,this crap is going to seep into the James River.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Excellent point.

And no "cleanup" is ever going to be 100%.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Understand

they miss some Crude,but usually pickup about eighty percent. But,it is after all South Dakota where they do not believe in asking a Corporation to please clean up your mess. Case in point,east of Brookings is a Toxic spill that has been in the clean up stage for more than a decade,and is in a sensitive Watershed area.

Usual Abatement is,soil removal and monitoring wells dug as a precaution with pumps for capture of any plume as it perks through the soil.