TIOGA, ND (KXNET) – Workers have now recovered most of the oil after a crude oil spill near Tioga that occurred around Tuesday, September 20.
About 8,400 gallons of oil were released after the line was blocked by a third-party contractor, Stealth Oilwell Services.
The line is operated by Enable Bakken Crude and is approximately 14 miles south of Tioga.
The oil spill hit farmland.
“This one is going to be, it’s all going to be dig and haul. The slow part was going around the pipeline and then most of it, like I said, followed their borehole so they just dug. Luckily , there’s no other pipeline there right now, so cleanup should be pretty quick and simple,” said Bill Suess, spill investigation program manager for the quality department of North Dakota environment.
North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality personnel inspect the site and monitor the cleanup.