Exxon restarts Pegasus pipeline

ExxonMobil has restarted a section of its Pegasus pipeline in Texas more than a year after a crude oil spill in central Arkansas forced the company to shut down the entire line, according to a spokesman.

The southern portions of the pipeline were restarted on 9 July, ExxonMobil spokesman Aaron Styrk said in an email.

The Texas section runs 205 miles between Corsicana and Beaumont and 6 miles segment between Beaumont and Nederland.

The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration approved the oil company's restart plan for the section on 31 March. Federal guidelines state the pipeline segment must operate at partial capacity. The restriction will remain in effect until ExxonMobil gets written permission to do otherwise.

The pipeline carries some 95 000 bpd of crude oil from Pakota, Illinois, to Nederland, Texas, and was shutdown following an oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas, on 29 March 2013.

Edited from various sources by Elizabeth Corner

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