UPDATE 3-U.S. heartland oil hub restarts after ice storm

(Updates throughout to reflect restart of operations)

NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Energy companies restarted pipelines and storage terminals in the U.S. heartland on Tuesday after a deadly ice storm knocked out power around the nation's most important oil hub.

The storm clipped power to over 800,000 customers in the U.S. Plains region and disrupted oil flows to Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for the New York Mercantile Exchange crude contract. [ID:nN11357477]

TEPPCO Partners (TPP.N) restarted its 115,000 barrel per day (bpd) Osage pipeline between the oil hub and refiners in Kansas and restored its 4.5-million-barrel Cushing storage terminal Tuesday afternoon. [ID:nN11539770]

The Seaway pipeline, however, the main crude artery between the U.S. Gulf Coast and Cushing, continued to operate at reduced rates due to the inability of some customers to accept deliveries.

Throughput at Enbridge's (EEP.N) 125,000 bpd Spearhead pipeline, that moves crude from Chicago to Cushing, returned and the firm's massive 16.7 million barrel Cushing storage terminal was accepting deliveries from customers again, spokesman Larry Springer said. [ID:nN11446259]

Enbridge said its Ozark and West Tulsa crude lines would restart later on Tuesday.

Magellan said a Tulsa fuel terminal shuttered by the storm had resumed loadings. [ID:nN11542252]

The outages at the Cushing hub, where inventory shifts weigh heavily on oil prices, helped push crude oil prices up $2.16 to $90.02 a barrel on Tuesday.