Delek Logistics Partners LP
DKL
Energy
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Delek Logistics Partners LP operates a midstream network of pipelines, terminals, and storage facilities that gather, transport, and store crude oil and refined petroleum products. Its core business is providing essential infrastructure for fossil fuels, with operations spanning crude oil gathering and transportation, refined product storage and distribution, and natural gas gathering and processing.
The company has a documented history of environmental violations tied to this infrastructure. In August 2019, Delek companies agreed to a settlement with the United States and the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) to resolve Clean Water Act violations. The settlement required Delek to pay $1,705,460 in federal civil penalties and an additional $550,000 to ADEQ.
Delek Logistics Partners caused the March 2013 Magnolia, Arkansas oil spill when a corroded 60-year-old underground strainer ruptured, releasing 5,890 barrels (247,380 gallons) of crude oil that contaminated approximately 3.5 miles of a creek and Little Cornie Bayou in Columbia County. The EPA and Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality filed suit in 2018 and reached a consent decree in August 2019 requiring Delek Logistics Operating, LLC, Delek Logistics Partners, LP, and SALA Gathering Systems, LLC to pay $1.7 million in federal civil penalties for Clean Water Act violations and $550,000 in state penalties to ADEQ. The consent decree also requires Delek to test water quality and soil in impacted areas and perform remedial action if testing indicates unacceptable human health or ecological risk, conduct spill response training, and establish response material caches near its Magnolia and El Dorado facilities.
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