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   From: RLK@komkast.net   
      
   Did Russia strike the refinery as payback for NATO providing long range   
   missiles so Kiev can knock out refineries in Russia?   
      
   A massive fire erupted at a Chevron oil refinery outside Los Angeles on   
   Thursday night, forcing residents to shelter in place following multiple   
   reports of an explosion.   
      
   Californians said they felt the blast come from Chevron’s refinery — the   
   company’s second-biggest site in the US — in El Segundo, Calif., around   
   9:30 p.m., the Los Angeles Times reported.   
      
   “I thought we got nuked or something,” Mark Rogers told the outlet,   
   saying his adult soccer league match in Redondo Beach was canceled   
   moments later because of the heavy smoke coming from the blaze roughly 6   
   miles away.   
      
   Videos taken when the explosion occurred showed a massive fireball   
   erupting amid a loud, extended roar.   
      
   “This was 300-foot flames,” Kevin Mohr, who was in Manhattan Beach, told   
   the outlet. “I didn’t know if a plane crashed or there was an earthquake   
   or both.”   
      
   The fire broke out at the facility’s Isomax 7 unit that converts   
   mid-distillate fuel oil into jet fuel for nearby LAX, Reuters reported,   
   citing sources.   
      
   The cause of the inferno was unknown, along with the fire’s effect on   
   the refinery’s ability to produce jet fuel for the airport.   
      
   The El Segundo refinery was opened in 1911 under the Standard Oil   
   Company of California, operating under the logo until 1984, when it   
   changed its name to Chevron Corporation.   
      
   The refinery’s rated capacity is 290,000 barrels per day, and its main   
   products are gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel, according to Chevron’s   
   website. Its total storage capacity is 12.5 million barrels in about 150   
   major tanks.   
      
   The complex produces approximately 40 percent of Southern California’s   
   jet fuel and 20 percent of its gasoline.   
      
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