NEW YORK — As investigators in Kansas seek to determine what caused the worst leak in the 12-year history of the Keystone Pipeline, a federal report released last year showed the crude oil conduit recorded 22 accidents between 2010 and 2020 and found the severity of spills has 'worsened' in recent years.
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The most recent Keystone Pipeline rupture occurred last week in Washington County, Kansas, near the Nebraska border, sending 588,000 gallons of crude cascading down a slope and into a creek, according to the pipeline's operator, TC Energy. The Kansas oil leak is now the biggest in the United States in more than a decade, but not the nation's largest. The 2010 Deep Horizon incident released 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a span of 87 days before it was capped, making it the worst oil spill in U.S. history followed by the Exxon Valdez supertanker accident in 1989 that dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska.
"Keystone’s accident history has been similar to other crude oil pipelines since 2010, but the severity of spills has worsened in recent years," the government report states. "Our focus is the safe operation of our system in an environmentally responsible manner. We make ongoing investments in pipeline monitoring systems, planned maintenance, pipeline integrity management and emergency preparedness," the company said.
The leak in Kansas was first detected just after 9 p.m. on Dec. 7, about 20 miles south of a pipeline's Steele City, Nebraska, terminal. The leak in the 36-inch diameter above-ground pipeline prompted TC Energy to shut down the line.
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