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NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell saidon Thursday it resumed commercial service on itsHouston-to-Houma (Ho-Ho) pipeline after it completed plannedmaintenance work.
The line was shut for electrical work just a month afterShell reversed its flow and restarted it in December last year.
The company reported a 20-barrel oil leak in Channelview,Texas, from a short section of an idled 12-inch pipeline that isa part of the Ho-Ho system.
Repairs and testing on the section were completed andcleanup continues at the site of the spill, where Shell deliversoil from the Ho-Ho mainline, a company spokeswoman said.
The Ho-Ho system includes a 360,000-barrel-per-day (bpd)pipeline from Port Neches, Texas, to Houma, Louisiana, and a500,000-bpd line from Houma to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port's(LOOP) hub in Clovelly, Louisiana.
Another 300,000-bpd segment carries crude from the Houmaterminal to St. James, Louisiana. (Reporting by Selam Gebrekidan; Editing by Cynthia Osterman andAndre Grenon)
