Colonial Pipeline Security Incident

News & Analysis on the Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Insight and Solutions for Supply Chain Disruptions OPIS continues to monitor the impact of the Colonial Pipeline shutdown. For ongoing news coverage and impact analysis, subscribe to the OPIS Spot Ticker, Real-time Racks, OPIS DemandPro or OPIS MarginPro. Free trials of each services are available. Colonial Pipeline Resolves Communication Issues Hindering Service Tuesday Tuesday, May 18, 2021 | 3:24:34 PM EDT The Colonial Pipeline computer system shippers use to communicate with the pipeline operator is operating once again after being down Tuesday morning and afternoon, the company has told OPIS. "Colonial has restored service to our nominations system, and customers can once again place nominations," a company spokeswoman said in a statement. Markets had become jittery after Colonial issued a shippers bulletin Tuesday morning warning it was "experiencing network issues impacting customers' ability to enter and update nominations." The warning came as markets are still recovering from disruptions caused after the pipeline was shut for six days last week due to a ransomware cyberattack. The pipeline company said in an earlier statement Tuesday the server running its nomination system experienced intermittent disruptions Tuesday morning "due to some hardening efforts that are ongoing and part of our restoration process." "These issues were not related to the ransomware or any type of reinfection," the company said. The company said it had continued to deliver refined products as nominated by shippers. Shippers contacted by OPIS earlier Tuesday had said that only phone orders were being taken by Colonial. On Monday evening, Colonial announced fuel supply along the 5,500-mile pipeline was back to flowing at normal rates, but warned it would take time for terminals, wholesalers and retailers to bring operations backs to normal levels. The 2.5-million-b/d pipeline supplies...

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