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WASHINGTON, Kan. (Reuters) – Canada’s TC Energy Corp said it had cleaned up almost 2,600 barrels of oil from the largest U.S. crude spill in nearly a decade, but the timetable to restart the Keystone Pipeline following its rupture last week remained unclear. TC Energy shut the pipeline after the spill of roughly 14,000 barrels of crude was discovered on Wednesday in Kansas. The company told officials in Washington County on Monday that it has not yet determined the cause and it started excavating around the pipeline. It is the third spill of several thousand barrels of crude from the Keystone line in the last five years. The 622,000 barrel-per-day Keystone line, which ships heavy Canadian crude from Alberta to U.S. refiners in the Midwest and the Gulf Coast, had received special permits to run at a higher rate than any other crude lines in the United States, and has been doing so since 2017. TC Energy and county officials met briefly Monday to discuss efforts to contain and clean up the spill, a company official said. The company provided no timeline on the cleanup, Dan Thalmann, owner of the Washington County News and who attended the meeting, said. […]
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