Sunoco Logistics tops U.S. crude spill charts, Reuters says

• Sunoco Logistics Partners (SXL +0.1%), the future operator of the Dakota Access oil pipeline delayed earlier this month following Native American protests, spills crude more often than any of its competitors with more than 200 leaks since 2010, according to a Reuters analysis.
• Data that companies disclose to the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration when they suffer spills found that SXL leaked crude from onshore pipelines at least 203 times over the last six years, ahead of at least 190 recorded by Enterprise Products Partners (EPD -0.4%) and 167 by Plains All American Pipeline (PAA +0.8%).
• Reuters says SXL acknowledged the data and said it had taken measures to reduce its spill rate.
• Energy Transfer Partners (ETP -0.8%) is constructing the pipeline to pump crude produced at North Dakota's Bakken shale fields to the U.S. Gulf coast, and will hand over the pipeline's operation to its SXL affiliate upon completion.