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Storm halts refining at ConocoPhillips in Hartford
Power outages following last night’s storms shut down oil refining at the ConnocoPhillips plant in Hartford.
On a normal day, the 10th busiest such plant in the nation refines 306,000 barrels of crude into gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, propane and other products that it ships by pipeline to St. Louis, Chicago and Indianopolis.
Not a single barrel was refined there today.
Plant spokeswoman Melissa Erker said the refinery had hired additional contractors to assist AmerenUE in repairing numerous downed lines and other damage to the plant.
Erker said she did not know when power would be restored. And she declined to speculate where the shutdown would affect area fuel prices.
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