Chevron refinery

Crews are working to clean up a petroleum spill in San Francisco Bay near the wharf at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, authorities said Wednesday.

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose for the fourth consecutive day Saturday, increasing 1 cent to $4.128.

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose 2.8 cents Friday to $3.786, its highest amount since Nov. 7, one day after increasing 3.1 cents.

One day after it jumped by 3.6 cents, the average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose another 3.1 cents Thursday to reach $3.758, its highest amount since Nov. 9.

The Chevron El Segundo Refinery that burned this week this week supplies 20 percent of the fuel to the local gas market, and 40 percent of the gas to Los Angeles International Airport, the NBC4 I-Team has found.

Firefighters doused a fire that erupted in a trash bin at the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo on Saturday, officials said.

Southland air-quality regulators said Thursday they will be actively monitoring this weekend’s planned restart of a the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance that was damaged by an explosion last year.

A divided South Coast Air Quality Management District hearing board has approved an agreement that will authorize a restart of the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance that was damaged by an explosion, hampering Southland fuel production and contributing to gas price increases. The vote was 3 to 2.

Contra Costa fire officials and Chevron said that the large dramatic flames over the Richmond Chevron refinery Thursday that were seen for miles were a result of “normal flaring.” But that didn’t do much to comfort people living near the troubled refinery, who called the flares anything but “normal” on social media.