20,000 Barrels of Crude Oil Spew out of Pipeline in North Dakota

More than 20,000 barrels of crude oil have spewed out of a Tesoro Corp. oil pipeline in a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota, the state Health Department said Thursday.

State environmental geologist Kris Roberts said the 20,600-barrel spill, among the largest recorded in the state, was discovered on Sept. 29 by a farmer harvesting wheat about nine miles south of Tioga.

“The farmer was harvesting his wheat and started smelling oil,” Roberts said. “It went from there.”

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