Colonial Pipeline Restarting After 6 Day Shutdown

Last night, the Colonial Pipeline launched the restart of operations after being shut down for the past six days due to the cyberattack by the Russian hacker group ‘DarkSide’. The company expects it to take several days for service to return to normal and in a statement said “Some markets served by Colonial Pipeline may experience, or continue to experience, intermittent service interruptions during the start-up period.” The company also said the pipeline will “Move as much gasoline, diesel and jet fuel’ as possible and continue to do so until markets are back to normal” while being as safe as possible. The pipeline shutdown caused panic-buying and hoarding as well as overwhelmed numerous gas stations. According to Gasbuddy, some stations in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and here in South Carolina have run dry.  The 5,500 mile line provides almost half the gasoline and diesel for the East Coast.