""Until we can figure out everything that happened here and make sure it doesn't happen again, we won't restart it," said Ross Allen, a Chevron spokesperson, adding that the refinery continues to produce jet fuel, as well as gasoline and diesel, from other units."
""I think Chevron has been extremely, extremely lucky ... [given] the size of the explosion here," said Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of engineering at USC who has served as an expert for the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board as it has probed other major refinery fires."
An explosion and fire at Chevron's El Segundo refinery originated in the Isomax unit, a jet-fuel processing unit that converts oil into higher-value products. The Isomax unit remains shuttered while other refinery operations continue producing jet fuel, gasoline and diesel from other units. The blast illuminated the night sky, produced a powerful roar heard miles away, and confined damage to the refinery footprint with only minor worker injuries and no fatalities. Chevron's on-site firefighting team responded. Industry experts say the scale of the fire is unusually large for such incidents and warrants a thorough investigation before restarting the Isomax unit.
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