Fireplace breaks out at Chevron’s El Segundo, California, refinery By Reuters

(Reuters) -Chevron mentioned fireplace crews had been responding to an remoted fireplace inside its 269,000-barrel-per-day El Segundo refinery in California on Tuesday, with no accidents as a result of incident.

The time of dispatch was 6:13 p.m. (0213 GMT) with a response on the two-alarm stage from El Segundo, Manhattan Seaside, Redondo Seaside and Los Angeles County fireplace departments, El Segundo fireplace chief Deena Lee mentioned.

It was unclear whether or not the fabric concerned was jet gas or diesel, Lee mentioned.

Native media experiences mentioned the fireplace had occurred in a specific part of the refinery.

An organization spokesperson declined touch upon which refinery items had been concerned.

The El Segundo refinery provides 20% of all motorized vehicle fuels and 40% of the jet gas consumed in southern California, in keeping with Chevron (NYSE:)’s web site.

The incident comes at a time when California gasoline costs are approaching $1 a gallon on prime of December NYMEX RBOB futures amid deliberate work at Marathon’s 363,000-bpd Los Angeles Refinery and an influence blip at Valero’s 145,000-bpd San Francisco plant.

California gasoline was valued at 38.50 cents over December NYMEX in Los Angeles on Nov. 1 and at 36.50 cents over in San Francisco.

Californian gas markets, which depend on manufacturing from West Coast refineries and imports from Asia, are identified for speedy value will increase.