Keystone Pipeline Shut Down After Spilling 200,000 Gallons Of Oil
5,000 gallons of oil spill from Keystone pipeline in South Dakota.
The Keystone pipeline was forced to shut down Thursday after it spilled over 200,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota.
TransCanada, which operate the pipeline, said it shut down the pipeline Thursday morning at 6 AM after the leak was detected.
The leak took place near Marshall County, South Dakota.
The 200,000-gallon leak is the equivalent of about 5,000 barrels of oil.
Earlier this year, President Trump signed a presidential permit allowing TransCanada to build an extension of its pipeline network known as the Keystone XL pipeline.
Keystone XL would transport as much as 830,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska, where it would join existing pipelines that deliver oil to refineries throughout the United States.
