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BP spokesperson Christina Audisho said in a statement that power was back on Friday at the refinery following Thursday's outage, and the refinery's office buildings and nearby roads had reopened.
WHITING, Ind. (AP) — BP’s sprawling oil refinery in northwest Indiana was hit Thursday by a power outage that prompted the company to shut it down and evacuate workers, authorities said.
The BP Whiting oil refinery in Whiting, Ind. caught the attention of locals on Feb. 1 when flames began shooting out the stacks due to a power outage, according to the City of Whiting.
The Whiting Refinery is an oil refinery located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan and the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal [1] and operated by BP. The facility is primarily located in Whiting, Indiana , USA, though portions of the 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2 ) complex span into the neighboring cities of Hammond and East Chicago .
The U.S. refinery strike widened on February 20, 2015, with workers at the nation's largest refinery walking off jobs. Shortly after talks between union and oil company representatives ended on the night of the 20th, the union notified Motiva Enterprises of a strike by its members at the company's 600,250-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Port ...
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The closure of an Indiana oil refinery could be one factor. Shutdown of Indiana oil refinery impacts gas prices with a 21 cent increase from last month Skip to main content
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