A pump station boosts the pressure of the oil to keep it moving through the pipeline. The company operates 49,000 miles of oil and natural gas pipelines in the United States, according to its website.

The trans-Alaska pipeline, shown in this file photo, remained shut down after the fire at a pump station near the Arctic Circle. AL GRILLO / AP File April 21, 2016, 12:44 AM EDT / Updated April 21 ...

A release of crude oil from the pipeline was confined to an agricultural field south of the pump station, Suess said. He told the Associated Press that oil was reported surfacing 300 yards south ...

CANTON, S.D. (AP) — Commissioners in a South Dakota county on Tuesday approved a conditional use permit for a pumping station needed for an expansion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Lincoln ...

The 17.5-mile pipeline that ruptured on Oct. 1 transports oil to the station from three offshore platform rigs that went into operation in the early 1980s.

HOUSTON, July 8-- Cairn India Ltd. has ordered 32 reciprocating gas engines for the pumping stations along its cross-country, heated oil pipeline currently under construction in India. The 590-km ...

The state Department of Ecology and personnel who oversee BP’s Olympic Pipeline have responded to an oil spill at a pipeline pump station south of the Burlington Country Club.

Workers at Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. have begun preparatory work for draining the existing discharge pipe at Trans Alaska Pipeline System’s Pump Station 1, installing a blind flange to seal ...

"An employee on a pump station heard what was described as a mechanical bang" at 7:44 a.m., Suess told CBS News, adding that the employee immediately shut down the pipeline and notified emergency ...