Cyberattack Forces Shutdown Of Largest Gasoline Pipeline In United States - Zero Hedge

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The largest gasoline pipeline on the East Coast, and the US in general, was shut down on Friday after its operator struggled to contain a cyberattack which threatened its systems. The 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline, which is the single largest refined-products pipeline in the United States, halted transit as the company was forced to take "certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations," according to The Wall Street Journal on Saturday. It's reportedly still offline into early Saturday.

Colonial's network is responsible for supplying fuel that originates with refiners on the Gulf Coast to most of the eastern and southern US, accounting for over 2.5 million barrels per day in gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, or other refined products transferred, making up 45% of all the East Coast's fuel supply. It spans from Texas through southern states and up to New Jersey....

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Cyberattack Forces Shutdown Of Largest Gasoline Pipeline In United States

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18 minutes ago, Tom Nolan said:

The largest gasoline pipeline on the East Coast, and the US in general, was shut down on Friday after its operator struggled to contain a cyberattack which threatened its systems. The 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline, which is the single largest refined-products pipeline in the United States, halted transit as the company was forced to take "certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations," according to The Wall Street Journal on Saturday. It's reportedly still offline into early Saturday.

Colonial's network is responsible for supplying fuel that originates with refiners on the Gulf Coast to most of the eastern and southern US, accounting for over 2.5 million barrels per day in gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, or other refined products transferred, making up 45% of all the East Coast's fuel supply. It spans from Texas through southern states and up to New Jersey....

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Cyberattack Forces Shutdown Of Largest Gasoline Pipeline In United States

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/cyberattack-forces-shutdown-largest-fuel-pipeline-united-states

Giant question, with enough people can they run the pipelines without computers monitoring/operating  it or is it too automated that humans no longer understand how it all works? Looks like a wake up call to have a non-computer driven backup plan for all pipelines.

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Luckily they were not asleep at the control station and got control of the attack! Would have given the liberals and greenies something more to bitch about! 
 

Actually in this “woke” America it’s racist to criticize oil because it’s black….

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This greenie thinks all previous presidents and politicians have been whimps and pushovers to cyber attacks. These attacks should be treated like a missile attack with a stiff response.

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Btw, this greenie supports the higher oil prices which in part a result of killing Albertas XL pipeline and killing leases on government land. The US is still supplying US consumption with US oil. No need to do more than that. 

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Gasoline Prices Set To Soar This Summer

By Irina Slav - May 06, 2021, 4:00 PM CDT

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Gasoline-Prices-Set-To-Soar-This-Summer.html

A shortage of tanker truck drivers in the United States made headlines recently, sparking fears that Americans may face higher prices at the pump this driving season, just as travel—and gasoline demand—begins to really recover. Yet not all agree there are good reasons for this fear.

In an article for Forbes, Suzanne Rowan Kelleher noted several experts' opinions that were on the calm side. According to these experts, the tanker truck driver shortage was a temporary problem, not a dramatic event that would send prices at the pump soaring.

The American Automobile Association said in a statement that while it expected a bigger jump in gas prices this month, the tanker truck driver shortage would not lead to higher summer season prices.

"Last week, media reports surfaced that a shortage of fuel tank truck drivers may impact gasoline availability this summer," spokeswoman Jeanette McGee said. "As gasoline demand increases, gas stations are working to adjust delivery schedules to keep pace. However, deliveries may be delayed in a small number of markets this summer causing select stations to see low to no fuel at some pumps for short periods, one or two days."

According to the National Tank Truck Carriers, however, as much as 20-25 percent of its fleet was parked because of a shortage of qualified drivers. This, according to CNN, is more than double the level of idled tanker trucks this time in 2019.

"We've been dealing with a driver shortage for a while, but the pandemic took that issue and metastasized it," the executive vice president of the NTTC, Ryan Streblow, said. "It certainly has grown exponentially."

Related Video: Good Luck Getting Gas This Summer

Another industry insider said, as quoted by CNN, that some tanker truck drivers had taken last year's collapse in fuel demand—and the resulting loss of work—as a hint to take early retirement. The workforce in the tanker truck driving business is aging, and schools where new tanker truck drivers are trained were closed early in the pandemic, cutting off new supply. So, while energy experts are brushing off the shortage of drivers, the driving industry itself appears to be a bit more concerned about the situation.

And it's not just driver shortage that will be affecting prices this summer. The cold spell that froze Texas in February brought a lot of refining capacity offline, and not all of it has fully recovered to normal production rates. The Texas Freeze shut down as much as 6 million bpd in refining capacity on the Gulf Coast, which made up a third of the national total.

These two factors, coupled with the expected surge in demand as vaccinated Americans take to the roads in droves, have caused some market observers to expect substantially higher prices this summer. However, some expect drivers will have no problem absorbing the additional bill.

"If we get to that herd immunity, I don't think $3.50 for gasoline is going to stop anyone," John LaForge, head of Wells Fargo's Real Asset Strategy division, told Reuters at the end of April. "That's why you can probably see higher prices into the summer, because for the last year, a lot of people have not been driving... and people want to get out, so they'll absorb it."

"If people look at what they were paying for gasoline last year, it was extraordinarily cheap," U.S. energy policy expert Jay Hakes told Forbes' Rowan Kelleher, "because we had the biggest drop off in oil demand—probably in history, certainly in modern history—where all of a sudden, within a week or two, people weren't flying and they weren't driving."

So, prices at the pump will likely jump during the summer, which is not so extraordinary as they tend to do that every driving season. Even if the jump is higher than usual, it is unlikely to discourage travel after a year of lockdowns.

By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com

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13 hours ago, notsonice said:

Giant question, with enough people can they run the pipelines without computers monitoring/operating  it or is it too automated that humans no longer understand how it all works? Looks like a wake up call to have a non-computer driven backup plan for all pipelines.

It's probably not so much of computer, but its connection to internet that allows the attack??

According to an old movie led by Bruce Willis, firesale attack means everything must go i.e. electricity, traffic, bank accounts ( amount in the accounts) and other systems e.g traffic lights etc...... Old systems of keeping essential things in printed copies, in separate drives, not connected to internet etc, might still be rather useful to prevent mishap of ultra-interconnectivity, or no??

Computer can be logged in easily by other people nowadays and work can be altered, sometimes unnoticed, until printed out.......... with mistake..... that not there in the first print......

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Interesting that the same people who deny that the election can be hacked are more than willing to believe everything else can be. 

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19 minutes ago, Ward Smith said:

Interesting that the same people who deny that the election can be hacked are more than willing to believe everything else can be. 

But is the main problem "elections can be hacked" or "elections can be undermined" (the #democracyrip strategy?). 

Everyone agrees that securing critical infrastructure is very important. 

 

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WE R SCREWD, just bend over and kiss your ass goodbye

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Perhaps some areas will need to go back to "odd-even" days for fueling (remember those)??

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On 5/9/2021 at 9:15 AM, surrept33 said:

But is the main problem "elections can be hacked" or "elections can be undermined" (the #democracyrip strategy?). 

Everyone agrees that securing critical infrastructure is very important. 

If only the Demoncrats acknowledged voting as a critical infrastructure. Meanwhile, the pipeline wasn't hacked it was only fortified 

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On 5/9/2021 at 9:49 AM, Ward Smith said:

Interesting that the same people who deny that the election can be hacked are more than willing to believe everything else can be. 

Sure, some things can be hacked but that is actually rare given the sheer amount of traffic.

No, the funniest part is that you conspiracy guys don't believe anything is real. If you had just stuck to one or two conspiracies you might be a little believable, but it is clear you fall for everything.  Tangled web of vaccines, 5G, CCP, Trump, Q storms, Pence false hope, mythical creatures and pillow men. 

 

When your hear hoof-beats think horses not zebras.

 

Edited May 11, 2021 by -trance

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https://beckernews.com/bombshell-fbi-violated-constitution-to-track-far-right-extremists-months-before-capitol-riots-38809/

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23 hours ago, -trance said:

Sure, some things can be hacked but that is actually rare given the sheer amount of traffic.

No, the funniest part is that you conspiracy guys don't believe anything is real. If you had just stuck to one or two conspiracies you might be a little believable, but it is clear you fall for everything.  Tangled web of vaccines, 5G, CCP, Trump, Q storms, Pence false hope, mythical creatures and pillow men. 

 

When your hear hoof-beats think horses not zebras.

 

Leftists are blind to the truth and proud of it!

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1 minute ago, ronwagn said:

https://beckernews.com/bombshell-fbi-violated-constitution-to-track-far-right-extremists-months-before-capitol-riots-38809/

A blog... big deal.

A crappy website made by a loser to profit from losers.

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Loser "news."  At least use your own words and research; don't be a Ward and just repeat thoughts of others.

Edited May 12, 2021 by -trance

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2 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

Leftists are blind to the truth and proud of it!

 

deal with it, your little fantasy of this being a Leftist problem shows how blind you are. Looks like sleepy Joe has gotten Trumps pals in Russia little attack taken care of

Colonial Pipeline readying ‘full restart’ after hack – but supply disruption could last for days

A devastating ransomware attack has left Colonial Pipeline out of service for six days, and fuel stations in many US states are now experiencing shortages

Colonial Pipeline remains largely shut down following a crippling ransomware hack last week – and while a full restart is expected soon, panic buying in several US states has sent fuel prices to their highest in years.

National average gasoline prices have now surpassed $3 per gallon for the first time since 2014 amid growing concerns of a shortage and a rush from customers looking to stock up.

Gasoline pumps at almost two-thirds (65%) of fuel stations in North Carolina have now run dry, while the same is true at more than 40% of forecourts in Georgia, Virginia and South Carolina, according to the latest data compiled by GasBuddy.

Colonial Pipeline says it is preparing for a full restart of operations, a decision that could be made later today (12 May).

A ransomware attack last Friday forced the Georgia-based company to shut down its entire infrastructure network, prompting a major federal investigation.

It runs the largest refined products pipeline in the US, stretching 5,500 miles from Houston, Texas to Linden, New Jersey – normally transporting more than 2.5 billion barrels each day from Gulf Coast refineries.

Around 45% of the fuel products used on the US East Coast flow through the sprawling network, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, home heating oil and fuel used by the US military.

 

 

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Easy to extract money and manipulate fools. 

Buying a made-in-China MAGA hat off late-night Home Shopping Network TV level stupid.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

https://beckernews.com/bombshell-fbi-violated-constitution-to-track-far-right-extremists-months-before-capitol-riots-38809/

If you read the actual court document you will see that they are finding everything appropriate and signing off on the actions. Ron, how gullible can you be?

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10 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

Leftists are blind to the truth and proud of it!

Biden is the POTUS. 

Tell that to the blind cult.

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Everyone remember that time we were saying Biden gave CHINA access to the US Power Grid months back when he rescinded one of Trump's executive orders banning the use of CHINESE Equipment to repair critical US Infrastructure? Snopes and others started screaming to high heaven that we were a bunch of conspiracy nuts.

On Dec. 17, 2020, Dan Brouillette, Trump’s secretary of energy, issued a prohibition order stemming from Trump’s May 1, 2020, executive order. Brouillette’s order “prohibits utilities that supply critical defense facilities (CDF) from procuring from the People’s Republic of China, specific BPS electric equipment that poses an undue risk to the BPS, the security or resilience of critical infrastructure, the economy, national security, or safety and security of Americans.”

Biden reversed it and now a few months later, a part of critical infrastructure goes down. Media, as usual, covers Biden's ass and the FBI claims RUSSIA did it.

In other words, Brouillette’s order barred equipment purchased from China from being used in critical electrical infrastructure in the U.S. On Jan. 20, 2021, Biden signed an executive order entitled, “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” The order suspended Trump’s May 1 order for 90 days.

[During] this 90-day review period, Responsible Utilities will refrain from installation of bulk-power system electric equipment or programmable components specified in Attachment 1 of the Prohibition Order that is subject to foreign adversaries’ ownership, control, or influence, and that Responsible Utilities will continue to work with the Department on identifying and mitigating supply chain vulnerabilities. To ensure that security of the Nation’s bulk-power system is strengthened during this suspension, the Department requests that Responsible Utilities designate critical defense facilities as a priority load in the applicable system load shedding and restoration plans.

Media outlets at the time called us a bunch of tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists.

HOW ABOUT NOW?

 

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6 minutes ago, Ward Smith said:

 

Babbling again? Putin loves you, as he should to all those who support him PS all you have is a downvote??? and you thought I was going to be kicked off after you ran to mother?

Edited May 12, 2021 by notsonice

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6 minutes ago, Ward Smith said:

 

When using other peoples words quote the actual author. 

 

I know independent thought and words are hard for you.  0R0 will swing by soon and tell you what to think.

Edited May 12, 2021 by -trance

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4 minutes ago, Ward Smith said:

 

If you were to actually read the Biden review order as quoted in your post you will notice that it says:

5 minutes ago, Ward Smith said:

[During] this 90-day review period, Responsible Utilities will refrain from installation of bulk-power system electric equipment or programmable components specified in Attachment 1 of the Prohibition Order that is subject to foreign adversaries’ ownership, control, or influence,

Let me emphasize the phrase "will refrain"! That changes nothing from the previous prohibition.