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Keystone Oil Pipeline Shut Down After Leak In Nebraska

TC Energy, the operator of the Keystone Pipeline, said on Thursday that it had shut down the oil pipeline and is responding to a release of oil into a creek near Steele City, Nebraska.

“We have shut down the Keystone Pipeline System and mobilized people and equipment in response to a confirmed release of oil into a creek, approximately 20 miles (approx. 32 kilometers) south of Steele City, NE,” the company said in a statement.

TC Energy had to proceed with an emergency shutdown, and the response was initiated late on Wednesday after alarms and a detected pressure drop in the system.

“The affected segment has been isolated, and booms deployed to control downstream migration of the release,” the company said.

“The system remains shutdown as our crews actively respond and work to contain and recover the oil,” it added.

TC Energy is notifying its customers of the situation and is actively cooperating with third parties to effectively respond to the incident. The company did not give a timeline or a date when oil flows would resume.

The 2,687-mile Keystone Pipeline System plays a key role in connecting Alberta’s crude oil supplies to U.S. refining markets in Illinois, Oklahoma, and Texas, as well as connecting U.S. crude oil supplies from the Cushing, Oklahoma, hub to refining markets on the U.S. Gulf Coast through the Marketlink Pipeline System.

The U.S. benchmark oil price, WTI Crude, jumped by more than 3% after news broke of the outage of the Keystone Pipeline, which carries around 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil from Canada to the U.S.

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On Wednesday, the EIA reported a decline of 5.2 million barrels in U.S. crude inventories for the week to December 2. Yet, there were builds in the products category, with gasoline inventories up by 5.3 barrels in the week to December 2, and an inventory build of 6.2 million barrels in middle distillates, which include diesel.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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