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OGJ editors

May 10th, 2021

Colonial Pipeline Co. plans to “substantially restore operational service by the end of week,” the company said May 10. Colonial suffered a May 7 cybersecurity attack involving ransomware and took certain parts of its 5,500-mile, 2.5-million b/d system offline to contain the threat, temporarily halting all pipeline operations and affecting some of the company’s IT systems, which it has been in the process of restoring.

The pipeline moves gasoline and other refined products from the US Gulf Coast to southern and east coast markets, meeting roughly 45% of the regions’ gasoline and diesel needs. Colonial described the shutdowns as precautionary, noting that the most immediate threat was to its business systems, not its operations.

Initial market impacts of the outage were muted. Potential fuel price increases are expected to be limited to northeastern and southeastern states, with the 2-week journey from Europe limiting the ability of refiners there to capitalize on any potential shortages unless the shutdown is protracted.

Third-party cybersecurity experts have launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the incident. Colonial remains in contact with law enforcement and other federal agencies, including the US Department of Energy which is leading the federal government’s response.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it is “working closely with the company” and other government agencies. To help avoid supply disruptions, the Department of Transportation issued a temporary hours of service exemption to allow motor carriers and drivers transporting gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and other refined products to work longer hours.

“We continue to evaluate product inventory in storage tanks at our facilities and others along our system and are working with our shippers to move this product to terminals for local delivery,” Colonial said May 10. “Actions taken by the federal government to issue a temporary hours of service exemption for motor carriers and drivers transporting refined products across Colonial’s footprint should help alleviate local supply disruptions.”

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Who has a history of shutting down pipelines?

their logo looks an awful lot like Canadian Pacific Rail.

The news lady said stock up on gas right now because it’s a catastrophe.

I have diesel vehicles and a bulk storage tank of diesel (500 gal) . Word

I’ll just say this. My county got hit with a ransomware attack back in December and it was freaking March before they got that schit straightened out. It was the damndest mess you have ever seen. And yeah, they were talking about week to get things back when they started. Apparently the hackers are very very good at what they do and build little roadblocks and booby traps through the whole mess. You think you have it figured out and making progress and bam, it’s right back to square one.

I’m gonna enslave Fireballz and make him suck dick for Spam.

Must be a big county.

Hah WTF . You must like spam

I’ve no idea what you are even trying to say.

One BJ per can ? LMAO

MUST BE A BIG COUNTY !

After Fireballz gets done building fish ponds today and hauling marbles , he gunna see this and get M A D

Lmao

Waiting for the “just send out a guy to open a valve” post.

waiting for nigerian style "private taps" to appear in the pipeline...

I’m saying that you must live in a big county.

I feed it to my parakeets.

Not particularly.

Hahaha.

Joe Bob, you'll learn not to ask.