
Across the city, Nick Day said the private. See: Here’s what the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack means for energy marketsĭrivers in the Southeast were seen as most vulnerable to higher pump prices or outages following the pipeline shutdown, analysts said, while states in the Northeast have access to other pipelines and ports. In west London, Laid Ibrahim, an Uber driver, tried at least seven gas stations before finding one open at 2 a.m. West Texas Intermediate crude for June deliveryįell 89 cents, or 1.4%, to $64.03 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while June gasoline 7.7 of the gas stations in Virginia were out of fuel Tuesday afternoon, while 8.5 of stations in North Carolina have run dry. Oil and gasoline futures were both lower on Tuesday, with investors taking comfort from the idea that the outage was a glitch that would soon be remedied. We are seeing a lot of stations running out.

The pipeline delivers around 45% of fuel consumed by the U.S. Even though the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is up and running again, people in South Florida are still dealing with other issues, like gas stations running out of fuel. Colonial closed its 5,500 mile pipeline over the weekend following a ransomware attack.

Read: Will the Colonial Pipeline outage hike gas prices? It all depends on where you liveĬolonial on Monday said its goal was to “substantially” restore operations by the end of the week.
