A ruptured section of pipeline in Alabama is causing gas shortages in some parts of Georgia.

A major pipeline that carries gasoline to the Eastern United States ruptured in Alabama, forcing part of it to shut down. The closure is threatening to drive up prices and create spot shortages of fuel along the Atlantic Coast and in the Southeastern United States.

A section of the Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Houston to New York, has been closed since Sept. 9, after a spill of roughly 250,000 gallons was discovered in rural Shelby County, Alabama.

The pipeline, one pipe of which has been severed, provides gasoline for an estimated 50 million people on the East Coast each day, according to company estimates. The cause of the leak has yet to be determined, according to the company’s most recent statement.

The pipeline’s operator has said full service will not be restored until the end of the week. The closure has forced suppliers to search for alternative ways to transport gasoline to the East Coast.

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Meanwhile, Colonial has said that more than 700 people were working around the clock to dig up the pipe, plug the leak, clean up the old mining property south of Birmingham and restore supply.

Colonial operates seven “stublines,” or shorter pipelines from Atlanta that transport gasoline to places like south Georgia, Nashville and Knoxville. Some gas stations have already run out of gas while there are reports of price gouging in some parts of Georgia.

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Prices have yet to move much. They’re only up a penny or two in the last week in states such as Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, according to AAA.

But gas prices could spike by as much as 15 cents per gallon or more in those three states, as well as North Carolina and Virginia, in the next week according to GasBuddy.com analyst Patrick DeHaan.

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For now, however, Gas Buddy’s data indicates that prices on average remain below the prices charged at the pump during the summer driving season in June July and August. Gas prices in the Southeast also haven’t moved much. Inventories of gasoline also remain high, according to AAA and the Energy Information Administration.