A small spill was reported in a residential yard in Ripley County, Missouri, on Tuesday. ExxonMobil told Reuters that a resident had notified the company after spotting a patch of oil and dead vegetation 11 kilometres south of Doniphan in the south-east of the state.
ExxonMobil said it had nearly completed cleaning up the one-barrel spill. It reported the incident to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources late on Tuesday afternoon, Reuters reported.
"The release occurred from the installation of a guide wire for a power line pipe that was installed approximately 30 years ago," a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources told the news wire. "The guide wire was located almost directly on top of the pipeline and has worn down over the years."
The latest leak on the Pegasus pipeline occurred about 200 miles south of a rupture in late March that spilled an estimated 5000 barrels of heavy oil onto residential properties in Mayflower, Arkansas.
The nearly 70-year-old pipeline was shut in following the larger spill and has remained shut for the past month.
ExxonMobil has not provided a cause for either spill.
Meanwhile, many of the 22 families evacuated from the site of the Mayflower spill may have to wait weeks before they can move back into their homes.
The Unified Command responsible for clean-up said this week that it will be "initiating a re-entry plan for the evacuated residents" to return to their homes "over the next few weeks".
Officials say heavy debris removal is nearly complete in the cove in Lake Conway where the oil spilled.
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