Chevron Keeps Its Los Angeles-Area Refinery Operating After Explosion

Built in 1911, the plant supplies about 40 percent of the jet fuel needed in Southern California and employs about 1,225 people.

Flames burn at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo, Calif., on Oct. 3, 2025. Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Chevron’s oil refinery near Los Angeles continued to produce gasoline for transportation as workers slowly restarted equipment halted by a recent fire, officials said on Oct. 6.

“We extinguished the fire Saturday [Oct. 4] morning and are working to restart some of the process units which were shut down during the fire and response,” Ross Allen, a Chevron communications advisor, told The Epoch Times in an email.