The keystone oil pipeline has been shut down after it ruptured in north dakota, halting the flow of thousands of gallons of crude oil from canada to refineries in the u.s. Trucks and workers started a cleanup effort at the site of a spill of the keystone oil pipeline in rural north dakota. While an investigation into a major oil leak on the keystone pipeline continues, a 2021 federal report shows the conduit recorded 22 accidents between 2010 and 2020. The keystone pipeline oil spill occurred on december 7, 2022, when a leak in the keystone pipeline released 13,000 barrels of oil into a creek in washington county, kansas [1][2] the leak is the largest in the united states since the 2013 north dakota pipeline spill and the largest in the history of the keystone pipeline The pipeline has had at least three significant spills since 2017, cbs news previously reported
The largest spill was in 2022, when an estimated 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a creek. The leaks have varied in size, but in total the keystone pipeline has spilled more than 1 million gallons of crude oil over the years. Somewhere in the rural quiet of fort ransom, north dakota, the keystone pipeline made a bit of a splash this morning—literally In 2017, the pipeline leaked an estimated 407,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of oil onto farmland in northeastern south dakota, in a rural area near the north dakota border.
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