Clean-up nearly complete following western North Dakota oil, brine spill

BISMARCK — An oil and brine spill that took place over Labor Day weekend has been mostly recovered, a press release from the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources stated.

The department’s Oil and Gas Division was notified of an oil spill which occurred Saturday, Sept. 2, at the “Pankowski SWD 1 well” in Williams County. On Thursday, Sept. 7, Tallgrass Water North Dakota, which operates the well, reported that 2,490 barrels or brine and 10 barrels of oil were released in the spill. At the time of the report, 2,489 barrels of brine and 9.9 barrels of oil had been recovered.

All of the products released in the spill were contained within the site, the news release stated. A North Dakota oil and gas inspector has visited the site and will track the remediation.

Company officials from Tallgrass Water could not immediately be reached Monday morning.

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