Enterprise-Enbridge Oil Pipeline Restarts After Texas Spill
February 05 2017 - 7:21PM
Dow Jones News
By Dan Molinski
A major oil pipeline owned by Enterprise Products Partners (EPD)
and Enbridge Inc. (ENB) resumed pumping Sunday after being halted
nearly a week ago due to a rupture and spill in Texas.
The 400,000-barrels-a-day Seaway S-1 pipeline carries crude oil
500 miles from a storage hub in Cushing, Okla. toward refineries
near Houston. The high-pressure line had to shut Monday when a
third-party road construction crew in the Dallas area punctured
it.
"Crude oil began flowing this morning and operations are
normal," said a statement from the Seaway Crude Pipeline Company
LLC, a joint-venture between Houston-based Enterprise and Canadian
firm Enbridge that operates the line. It said all needed repairs
are complete.
The companies haven't provided an estimate of how much oil was
spilled. The rupture Monday created a gusher several stories high
that sprayed oil all over a nearby highway, forcing the road to
close in both directions for many hours. A nearby gun shop and gas
station were also closed and evacuated temporarily.
The same pipeline also had an oil spill in October that forced
the line to be shut for a week while cleanup and repairs were
done.
An Enterprise representative said the day after the rupture that
barriers and other safeguards are supposed to prevent accidental
ruptures by construction crews, or other such incidents, and said
the investigation is looking into what apparently went wrong in
this case.
Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 05, 2017 19:06 ET (00:06 GMT)
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