Plains L.A. Pipeline Crude Leak Strips Club Patrons of Cars
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A Plains All-American Pipeline Co. line supplying oil to some of California’s largest refineries shut after leaking as much as 21,000 gallons in Los Angeles, damaging a strip club and forcing some customers to leave their cars behind.
Line 2000, one of two major lines that deliver crude from the San Joaquin Valley, was taken out of service after the spill, Dennis Mathisen, a spokesman for the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said by telephone from Sacramento today. Combined throughput on Line 2000 and Line 63, a second conduit between the valley and Los Angeles, was 125,000 barrels a day in the first quarter, a company filing showed.