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May 12 (Reuters) - TC Energy Corp finished
recovering oil from a rural Kansas creek where its Keystone
Pipeline spilled 14,000 barrels of oil in December, the company
said on Friday.
The pipeline operator expects to remain onsite until the
third quarter of this year to finish restoring the Mill Creek
shoreline, TC Energy said in a statement.
"We continue progressing with restoration activities along
the Mill Creek shoreline, and environmental monitoring is
ongoing," it said.
Keystone's spill into a Kansas creek was the biggest U.S.
oil spill in nine years and prompted a 21-day shutdown of a
portion of the 622,000 barrel-per-day pipeline, which ships
crude from Alberta to U.S. refineries. In April, the Calgary-based company
released the findings
that showed the oil spill was caused by a progressive
fatigue crack, which originated during the construction of the
pipeline.
(Reporting by Deep Vakil, Brijesh Patel and Harshit Verma in
Bengaluru; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Diane Craft)
