BP was purging its 435,000 barrel per day bpd, Whiting, Indian, refinery of hydrocarbons on Thursday after a transformer failure caused a plant wide power outage and stress an evacuation of all however the most essential labours revealed people familiar with plant operations.

It is not clear how much BP take time to start again the refinery which company biggest in North America and mega in the Midwest.

News of the Whiting refinery outage which happened at midday, pushed up diesel and gasoline price in the area on danger of tighter fuel supply and decrease Canadian crude prices on concerns of lower demand.