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Feds Declare Regional Emergency For Midwest
States After Oil Refinery Has ‘Unanticipated Shutdown’
Daily Wire, by Zach Jewell
Posted By: Imright, 8/27/2022 7:48:16 PM
The Department of Transportation declared a regional emergency Saturday affecting four Midwest states after a fire earlier this week caused an “unanticipated shutdown” of a BP oil refinery in Indiana.BP Whiting, the sixth largest refinery in the U.S. refining over 400,000 barrels of oil per day, shut down to undergo damage assessment after a fire knocked out the plant’s electrical power and cooling water systems on Wednesday, Reuters reported.(Snip) the looming shortage of fuel output that will affect Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, states that collectively receive up to 25% of their fuel from the Whiting refinery.