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California oil line fixed after thousands of gallons spill - Odessa American: Oil News Page 1 of 5 <br /> May 31,2016 Email Alerts Online Edi <br /> I <br /> 750 <br /> Overcast <br /> News Features Oil Price Permian Basin Drilling Report Weekly Rig Count Oil And Gas Classes Dennis Elam C011lmr <br /> �- -� _C_ � <br /> California oil line fixed after <br /> *Site QWeb <br /> thousands of gallons spill <br /> Story Comments Print Font Size: <br /> Posted:Tuesday,May 24,2016 5:05 put I Updated.990 pm, Toe May 24,2016, <br /> Associated Press r^ <br /> TRACY,Calif. (AP)—Crews have repaired an oil pipeline that broke days ago and spilled up to 21,000 gallons of ;„-,�• <br />{ crude underground in rural Northern California,a spokesman for Shell Oil Co.said Tuesday. -•j <br /> i <br />�! The company was running small amounts of oil through the pipeline to test it as crews worked to clean up the spill in <br /> remote, undeveloped countryside near Tracy,about an hour east of San Francisco,Shell spokesman Ray Fisher <br /> said. <br /> Oil was visible over about a 250-foot-by-40-foot stretch of land, but none of it spilled into waterways, Miryam <br /> Barajas,a spokeswoman with the state Water Resources Control Board,said Tuesday. i <br /> Additionally,groundwater reserves in the area of the spill are relatively deep, lessening the risk of contamination of <br /> underground water supplies,Barajas said. f 1 <br /> y11 <br /> A company command center noticed a problem with the pipeline on Friday morning and shut it down within a l�I ��I <br /> minute, Fisher told The Associated Press.Shell believes a crack of up to 20 inches opened in the line,which is TI I k..i <br />}� about 7 feet underground. <br /> i The company notified state and local agencies of the break within two hours, Fisher said. <br />,II 'The fact ifs already been repaired speaks to the expedience"with which Shell handled the break,he said. DAILY <br /> i <br /> State water board officials were in contact with local officials about the spill Friday morning,said Barajas,the water May 27 <br /> board spokeswoman. <br /> r <br />_ Environmentalists are assessing the threat from the spill,including what wildlife could be affected,Patrick Sullivan, F <br /> a spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity,told The Associated Press. <br /> c <br /> In scale and threat,the release was"certainly nothing like the Santa Barbara spill'last year,when more than <br /> 120,000 gallons of oil from a broken pipeline flowed onto scenic coastline,Sullivan said. <br /> I <br /> http://www•oaoa.com/inthepipeline/oil news/article_6cc4lf94-8c38-5f6d-9861-33fdf3918... 5/31/2016 <br /> _ a <br />