By Nicole Jao
NEW YORK (Reuters) -BP’s 440,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana, resumed operations on Friday after a outage prompted a temporary evacuation at the plant, the company said.
The refinery resumed operations after power was restored, BP said in a statement.
The outage was caused by a disruption to electrical service that occurred outside of the facility this morning, the refiner said. All personnel have returned to the plant.
BP was in the process of bringing its 110,000 bpd fluid catalytic cracking unit online, according to industry monitor IIR Energy.
A fire broke out after an operational incident at the Whiting refinery last week. Multiple units were taken offline due to the blaze.
A spokesperson declined to provide details on the restart process.
In mid-September, the refinery started planned maintenance work on its units, including the crude processing unit and fluid catalytic cracker. The planned turnaround was expected to last for two months.
The refinery, the largest in the U.S. Midwest, produces a wide range of liquid fuels, including gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
(Reporting by Nicole Jao in New York; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Diane Craft)
