EVERETT—Integrated oil and gas company British Petroleum (BP) has located the source of a leak in its Olympic Pipeline, 15 days after the leak was first discovered, and restored service to one, of two lines, that send jet fuel to SeaTac Airport.

BP’s Olympic Pipeline transfers refined products such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, from its refineries in Anacortes and Whatcom County to terminal sites in Seattle, Sea-Tac, Tacoma, Vancouver, Washington, and as far as Portland, Oregon.

The 400-mile pipeline consists of two separate lines – a 16-inch pipe that carries fuel and a 20-inch pipe that carries gasoline. The leak was discovered in the second pipe but both pipes had been closed due to precaution.

The first pipe (the one that carries fuel to SeaTac Airport) has been reopened while

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