Olympic Pipeline fuel spill in farmlands near Everett (Photo credit: BP)
Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson declared an emergency as a result of a BP shutdown of the Olympic Pipeline on Wednesday.
The shutdown is affecting the jet fuel supply to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
If jet fuel deliveries through the Olympic Pipeline are not restored by Saturday evening, “airport operations will be significantly affected,” Ferguson said in an emergency proclamation issued on November 19th, 2025.
Executive Dave Somers and County Emergency Management Director Lucia Schmit joined Governor Ferguson, Congressman Larsen, and other officials on 11/22 on a site visit to the Olympic Pipeline leak in Snohomish County.
The governor’s proclamation waives certain regulations to free up alternative commercial methods of delivering fuel to SEA Airport outside of the pipeline.
The fuel leak was first reported on November 11th as a “sheen in a drainage ditch” near a blueberry farm just east of Everett. There are a couple blueberry farms on Lowell Larimer Rd near the location of the pipeline.
The company temporarily restored the smaller of the two pipelines on Monday, but it was shut down again shortly thereafter. The larger line has remained shut down throughout the entire process. No estimates on when things open up again have been provided by BP.
In 2014 the pipeline leaked near Burlington and in 2023 it leak into a creek near Mount Vernon.
November 21, 2025
Everett Government, Everett Economy