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Cyberattack Forces Shutdown Of Largest Gasoline Pipeline In United States<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The largest gasoline pipeline on the East Coast, and the US in general, was\u00a0shut down on Friday after its operator struggled to contain a cyberattack which threatened its systems<\/strong>. The 5,500-mile\u00a0Colonial Pipeline, which is the single largest refined-products pipeline in the United States, halted transit as the company was forced to take “certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations,” according to\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on Saturday. It’s reportedly\u00a0still offline into early Saturday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Colonial’s network is responsible for supplying fuel that originates with refiners on the Gulf Coast to most of the eastern and southern US, accounting for\u00a0over 2.5 million barrels\u00a0per day<\/strong>\u00a0in gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, or other refined products transferred,\u00a0making up 45% of all the East Coast’s fuel supply<\/strong>. It spans from Texas through southern states and up to New Jersey.<\/p>\n

“At this time, our primary focus is the safe and efficient restoration of our service and our efforts to return to normal operation,” the\u00a0Alpharetta, Georgia-based\u00a0company\u00a0stated<\/a>.\u00a0“This process is already underway, and we are working diligently to address this matter and to minimize disruption to our customers.”<\/p>\n

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The disruption earlier in the day Friday saw\u00a0Gulf Coast cash prices for gasoline and diesel push lower, though longer-term price effects will depend on just how long the lines remain shut.\u00a0If the closure persists further into the weekend or even early next week, it’s very likely to send gasoline prices soaring.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last time there was a significant shutdown of Colonial’s lines was during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which shot spot Gulf Coast gasoline prices to a five-year high and diesel to near a four-year high.<\/p>\n

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Cyberattack Forces Shutdown Of Largest Gasoline Pipeline In United States The largest gasoline pipeline on the East Coast, and the US in general, was\u00a0shut down on Friday after its operator struggled to contain a cyberattack which threatened its systems. The 5,500-mile\u00a0Colonial Pipeline, which is the single largest refined-products pipeline in the United States, halted transit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14256,2077,3790,31193,827,4318],"class_list":["post-57728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-colonial-pipeline","tag-cyberattack","tag-gas-pipeline","tag-ransomware-attack","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57729,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57728\/revisions\/57729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}