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Whiting Refinery Offline For Three Weeks

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BP is planning to keep the 435kbpd Whiting, Indiana, refinery shut for three weeks for inspections of units and piping after a power outage shut the facility on 1 February, sources told Reuters.

  • The refinery produces around 238kbpd of gasoline, 95kbpd of diesel and 48kbpd of jet fuel and supplies approximately 7% of all asphalt in the US, according to BP.
  • The shutdown also weighs on US imports of Canadian heavy crude.

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