A small pond was contaminated with oil after a 16-inch Centurion Company pipeline burst over the weekend near Yukon. Cleanup is still underway.
It was early Sunday morning when the line broke under a 10-acre pond and oil bubbled to the surface in the Savannah Estates near Memorial Road and County Line Road.
“It didn’t smell like just straight up oil that you’d put in a golf cart or dirt bike, but you can tell it definitely was oil of some type,” Savannah Estates neighbor Justin Kohs told News 9 reporters.
Evacuations were not necessary but it left residents upset.
“I want it to be cleaned up. I mean, that’s the priority,” neighbor Jacob Torres said. He explained he and other neighbors had paid for more expensive lots close to the pond.
“It’s our pond. We go back there and kayak and fish and everything else and I wasn’t real happy with not getting any information,” Torres said.
The company who owns the pipeline, Centurion Pipeline headquartered in Midland, Texas released the following statement:
“At approximately 3:30 a.m., February 18, Centurion Pipeline personnel responded to an incident in Yukon, Oklahoma, where there was a discharge of oil into a retaining pond. The release has been contained and cleanup operations are underway.
Centurion Pipeline has notified the appropriate governmental authorities, and will coordinate and cooperate fully with them.
Centurion Pipeline is committed to safeguarding the environment and protecting the safety and health of our employees and neighboring communities.”
Centurion Pipeline L.P. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation with nearly 2,900 miles of pipeline. Much of the system extends from southeast New Mexico across the Permian Basin to Cushing.
