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Fire burns at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, California, on Friday. No injuries were reported and all workers at the refinery were accounted for.Apu Gomes\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

A massive fire erupted in a jet fuel production unit at Chevron\u2019s El Segundo refinery near Los Angeles on Thursday, sending flames and smoke into the sky and raising questions over supply in California\u2019s isolated energy market.<\/p>\n

No injuries were reported and all workers at the refinery were accounted for, Chevron spokesperson Allison Cook said in an e-mail. Media said the blaze had been contained, though it was still burning early on Friday.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion at the facility in the suburb of El Segundo, which supplies jet fuel for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).<\/p>\n

The fire broke out in the refinery\u2019s Isomax 7 unit, which converts mid-distillate fuel oil into jet fuel, two sources said.<\/p>\n

It was unclear how it would affect the refinery\u2019s ability to produce jet fuel, and whether wider output had been affected.<\/p>\n

Isomax 7 produces jet fuel along with the refinery\u2019s two crude distillation units for LAX airport, located just north of the refinery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no known impact to LAX at this time,\u201d Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said.<\/p>\n

U.S. WTI crude futures prices were trading up 46 cents at $60.94 per barrel by 1011 GMT on Friday, on course for a weekly loss of more than 7 per cent on the week.<\/p>\n

The fire is unlikely to have a large impact on the wider oil market, two analysts told Reuters, but California gasoline prices could rise as the state\u2019s fuel market is isolated from other U.S. refining centres in the Midwest and on the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n

Chevron\u2019s second biggest refinery in the United States, the El Segundo facility supplies a fifth of all motor vehicle fuels and 40 per cent of the jet fuel consumed in southern California.<\/p>\n

\u201cChevron fire department personnel, including emergency responders from the cities of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach are actively responding to an isolated fire inside the Chevron El Segundo Refinery,\u201d Cook, the spokesperson, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll refinery personnel and contractors have been accounted for and there are no injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local officials said no evacuation orders were issued for nearby residents, some of whom live in apartment buildings across the street from the refinery.<\/p>\n

Residents of Manhattan Beach, located southwest of the refinery, were told to shelter in place until 2 a.m.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles residents posted numerous videos of the fire online, saying they were stunned by the noise of the blast. A University of California-San Diego camera captured video of the explosion shortly after 9:30 p.m. PDT.<\/p>\n

The fireball when the fire erupted turned the sky orange in the western Los Angeles area as did the refinery\u2019s safety flare, which was set off due to the blaze.<\/p>\n

Safety flares, which emit a tall plume of flame, are used when refineries cannot process hydrocarbons normally.<\/p>\n

In addition to Chevron, state and federal safety agencies will investigate the fire after the blaze is extinguished, they said.<\/p>\n

In December, 2022, an isolated fire in the refinery was quickly extinguished.<\/p>\n

The refinery\u2019s total storage capacity is 12.5 million barrels in about 150 major tanks. The sources said they were not sure how much jet fuel was currently in storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Fire burns at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, California, on Friday. No…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":274578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,159,1458,158,1164,2141,67,132,68,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-274577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-northwest-territories","38":"tag-nova-scotia","39":"tag-nunavut","40":"tag-ontario","41":"tag-pei","42":"tag-photos","43":"tag-political-news","44":"tag-political-opinion","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-politics-news","47":"tag-quebec","48":"tag-science","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-united-states","54":"tag-unitedstates","55":"tag-us","56":"tag-us-news","57":"tag-world-news","58":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}