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Enbridge Ordered to Take `Corrective Action' Before It Can Restart Line
Enbridge Energy Partners LP won’t be able to start its 268-mile pipeline that spilled oil in Michigan until it takes “corrective action,” the Department of Transportation said.
The 30-inch Line 6B was shut after it leaked an estimated 19,500 barrels of oil July 26. The pipeline can transport 190,000 barrels a day of light synthetic and heavy and medium crude oil between Sarnia, Ontario, and Griffith, Indiana.
“Prior to resuming operation of the section of Line 6B pipeline segment,” according to the order issued July 28. Enbridge must “submit a written restart plan for prior approval.”
Larry Springer, a spokesman for Enbridge, didn’t immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
The pipeline supplies crude oil to refineries in Toledo, Ohio, Detroit and Sarnia, Springer said earlier this week. Plants in those areas include two in Toledo operated by BP Plc and Sunoco Inc., one in Detroit owned by Marathon Oil Corp. and Sarnia plants run by Imperial Oil Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc., and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
The line had annual maintenance this year and none of the area involving the breach was replaced, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Daniel said on a conference call yesterday. It could be weeks before the cause of the leak is known, he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Aaron Clark in New York at aclark27@bloomberg.net
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