An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas this week is the largest for an onshore crude pipeline in more than nine years and by far the biggest in the history of the Keystone pipeline, according to federal data.
A temporary shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline System following an oil leak last week in Kansas already has had a ripple effect on Oklahoma revenues related to oil and gas production.
The operator of a pipeline with a large onshore crude oil spill has reopened all of it except for the stretch in Kansas and northern Oklahoma that includes the site of the rupture