TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A pipeline operator has put a damaged section in Kansas back into service, a little more than three weeks after a spill dumped 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek.
Canada-based T.C. Energy announced Thursday that it had completed repairs, inspections and testing on its Keystone pipeline in northeast Kansas.
The company said that allowed for a controlled restart of the section from near the Nebraska-Kansas line to northern Oklahoma.
The 2,700-mile Keystone system carries heavy crude oil from western Canada to the Gulf Coast and to central Illinois.
The spill occurred Dec. 7 in a rural county northwest of Kansas City.
