Firefighters continued to clean up after a massive explosion and fire rocked the Chevron El Segundo Refinery in Southern California late on Oct. 2, sparking a fire that burned for more than nine hours.
The refinery is the second largest in California, and Chevron’s second biggest in the United States. The state’s largest refinery is Marathon Oil Corp.’s Los Angeles Refinery in nearby Carson.
“All refinery personnel and contractors have been accounted for and there are no injuries,” Allison Cook, a Chevron spokeswoman, said in a statement.
The fire was confined to a jet fuel production unit at the refiner, which could cause disruption to the state’s aviation needs. The refinery supplies 40 percent of the jet fuel needed in Southern California. The site employs about 1,225 people with 300 additional contract employees….