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BP (NYSE:BP) plans to restart its Whiting, Indiana, refinery – the biggest within the Midwest – within the final week of February and return to full manufacturing in March, Reuters reported Wednesday.
The Whiting refinery was shut on February 1 by a plant-wide energy outage initially attributed to the failure of two transformers on the refinery, and BP (BP) has been assessing refinery items and inside piping for potential harm from the sudden shutdown in addition to figuring out the precise reason behind the facility loss, in keeping with the report.
Retail gasoline costs within the Chicago space have elevated greater than $0.20/gal for the reason that refinery shut down.
The Whiting refinery is BP’s (BP) largest within the U.S. and the nation’s sixth largest total, processing 440K bbl/day of crude oil, making quite a lot of liquid fuels and asphalt; it’s the largest gas provider to the Chicago space.
