Update: Keystone Pipeline stopped after the break near Fort Ransom

An unknown quantity of crude oil has overturned. The cause is under study

Fort Ransom, ND (KVRR)-Part of the Keystone pipeline, which transports crude oil from Canada to the United States, broke up on Tuesday morning near Fort Ransom, southeast of North Dakota.

Bill Suess, director of the Northern Dakota program, the Ministry of Environment Quality, told KVRR Local News that a pipeline employee said he had heard a “blow” and saw the oil out of the 30 -inch pipeline, near a pumping station.

Suess says that the rupture was reported at 7:44 am

Oil was reported overfacting 300 meters south of the pumping station in a field. Suess says that the spill was contained in about two minutes. The oil was confined in a neighboring field.

The size and cause of the spill are being studied.

The $ 5.2 billion pipeline was built in 2011. The pipeline transported crude oil through Saskatchewan and Manitoba through Northern Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri with Illinois and Oklahoma refineries.