- A leak has forced the temporary closure of the Seaway Crude Pipeline, one of the largest pipeline systems feeding crude from the U.S. oil storage hub in Cushing, Okla., to Gulf coast refineries, operator Enterprise Products Partners (EPD -0.6%) says.
- EPD does not provide an estimate of the volume spilled, but says much of it was contained in a retention pond and that part of the line should reopen later in the day.
- The main 400K bbl/day 30-inch diameter legacy line was shut following the discovery of the leak, and a 450K bbl/day parallel line known as the Twin Line - the one expected to return to service - also was shut as a precaution, limiting a total of 850K bbl/day of flows out of Cushing.
- Seaway Crude Pipeline Company is a joint venture of EPD and Enbridge (ENB -1.4%).