(Reuters) - Canada's Inter Pipeline Ltd (TO:IPL) said on Monday it had restored services to its Polaris pipeline after a leak caused an outage to a part of the system.
The oil pipeline operator said the Alberta Energy Regulator approved the installation of a 400-meter bypass pipeline that enables the western portion of Polaris to transport diluent to customers north of Fort McMurray.
The 865,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) pipeline supplies ultralight oil from Edmonton, Alberta to oil sands sites to be blended with bitumen for transport.
Imperial Oil Ltd (TO:IMO), a company majority owned by U.S. major Exxon Mobil Corp (N:XOM), said production at its 220,000-bpd Kearl oil sands site had restarted following the return to service of Polaris.
Inter Pipeline detected the leak in its system late last month and reported a spill of 90 cubic meters (566 barrels) of light oil, 80 meters from a wetland and one kilometer from the Clearwater River.
Repair work on the pipeline will continue, while the cause of the leak remains under investigation, Inter Pipeline said. (https://