TransCanada Recovers 44,400 Gallons of Oil From Keystone Pipeline Spill Site

TransCanada Recovers 44,400 Gallons of Oil From Keystone Pipeline Spill Site
An aerial view shows the darkened ground of an oil spill which shut down the Keystone pipeline between Canada and the United States, located in an agricultural area near Amherst, South Dakota. Reuters/Dronebase
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TransCanada Corp said on Friday, Nov. 25, it has recovered 44,400 gallons, or 1,057 barrels, of oil from the Keystone pipeline spill site at Amherst, South Dakota.

The company had shut down its 590,000 barrel-per-day Keystone pipeline, which links Alberta’s oil sands to U.S. refineries, on Nov. 16 after a 5,000-barrel spill.