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A note posted at a gas pump indicates the pump is out of premium gasoline at a Costco Warehouse fuel station, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Ridgeland, Miss. State officials warn that any shortages seen at individual gas stations are a result of people panic buying, and not the Colonial Pipeline shutdown itself. They call on residents to limit unnecessary travel and to only buy as much gasoline as they need. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) May 13, 2021 - 3:54 PM
CLEMMONS, N.C. (AP) â Motorists found gas pumps shrouded in plastic bags at tapped-out service stations across more than a dozen U.S. states Thursday while the operator of the nation s largest gasoline pipeline reported making âsubstantial progressâ in resolving the computer hack-induced shutdown responsible for the empty tanks.
The pipeline stretches from Texas to New Jersey, but the northeastern US has seen fewer disruptions since those states are supplied more by other sources such as ocean tankers. Fuel is flowing again across most of the Deep South, and other parts that were offline in the Mid-Atlantic region were expected to become operational later Thursday, the company said. “We are not out of the woods yet, but the trees are thinning out,” Richard Joswick, global head of oil analytics at S&P Global Platts said in an email. He estimates that full recovery for the East Coast and Gulf Coast will take a couple of weeks at least due to lags and limits for all shipping options.
Colonial Pipeline restores full service, return to normal will take âseveral daysâ
By Kelly Hayes
President Biden remarks on the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack
President Biden said Thursday the Colonial Pipeline will be back up and running in full by the weekend.
Colonial Pipeline said Thursday is has resumed full operations along its pipeline system on the East Coast, but said it will take several days before supply chains return to normal following a near-weeklong shutdown due to a cyberattack. We can now report that we have restarted our entire pipeline system and that product delivery has commenced to all markets we serve, the company said in a statement Thursday afternoon. Following this restart, it will take several days for the product delivery supply chain to return to normal. Some markets served by Colonial Pipeline may experience, or continue to experience, intermittent service interruptions during this start-up period.
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