Flooding overwhelmed a pump at Exxon's Joliet refinery, extending offline status

Exxon said floodwater disabled a pump at its Joliet refinery, keeping the plant offline after an earlier power outage; the facility produces millions of gallons of gasoline and diesel daily, so the outage has regional supply implications.

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- Event: floodwater overwhelmed a pump at Joliet refinery
- Status: shutdown extended beyond initial power outage
- Plant significance: one of the Midwest’s largest gasoline/diesel refineries
- Joliet refinery normally produces ~11 million gallons of fuel per day (reported)
- Report warns prolonged outage could further tighten regional fuel availability
- No company estimate of restart timing provided in the article

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