A key pipeline that supplies petrol to the southern US is set to be shut down in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
Colonial Pipeline said it expects to shut off the line on Thursday due to storm-related refinery shutdowns and Hurricane Harvey’s effect on its facilities west of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
The Georgia-based company had already closed down another line that transports primarily diesel and aviation fuels.
The pipeline provides nearly 40% of the South’s petrol.
In September 2016, a leak and gas spill in Alabama that closed the Colonial Pipeline led to days of empty petrol station pumps and higher prices in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
The company did not say how long it expects the closure to last, saying it will know more when workers can evaluate its facilities.