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Kinder Morgan cleaning up spill on Trans Mountain pipeline system

Kinder Morgan Inc. said it shut the Trans Mountain pipeline for several hours May 27 after discovering an oil leak at a metering station in central British Columbia.

Company crews and government officials were at the site near Barriere, British Columbia, where about 100 liters, or 0.62 barrel, of medium crude was spilled. Kinder Morgan was alerted to the leak at a metering station by an automated system in the early morning hours of May 27 and shut the line as a precaution. Repairs were made and the system was restarted at about 3:20 p.m. PT, the company said in a statement. The leak occurred at the Darfield station approximately 750 kilometers southwest of Trans Mountain's origin in Edmonton, Alberta.

Trans Mountain, operated by Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd., carries about 300,000 barrels of petroleum products between terminals in Edmonton and Burnaby, British Columbia. The spill comes just before a May 31 deadline the company has set for Canada's various levels of governments to settle regulatory differences about a C$7.4 billion expansion that would boost Trans Mountain's capacity to 890,000 bbl/d. Kinder Morgan has halted most construction activity related to the expansion. No construction was taking place in the vicinity of the spill.

Crews were using vacuum trucks and other heavy equipment to mop up the spill, which was contained entirely on Kinder Morgan property.