Cleanup Underway After Massive Oklahoma Oil Spill

Crews are working to contain thousands of gallons of crude oil that leaked into a creek in northern Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said the oil extends for about 5 miles in Black Bear Creek in rural Garfield County.

Skinner says the spill was reported Tuesday by Great Salt Plains Midstream of Oklahoma City, a pipeline operator. The oil apparently leaked from an open valve on a tank. Skinner says the cause is under investigation.

He says about 750 barrels, or 31,500 gallons, leaked and that crews are “working around the clock” to remove the oil. Skinner says there’s no threat to those people who live in the area.

A representative of Great Salt Plains Midstream didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.