An apparent accident at the Buncefield fuel depot in the UK has resulted in 180M gallons of fuel capacity being destroyed by fire. Given 42 gallons to the barrel, and assuming 50% capacity offhand, approximately 2.15M barrels of refined fuel was lost. While the authorities are quick to assure that no shortages will result, some slack has been removed from the system.
As a comparison, according to this precis, UK fuel consumption was approximately 1.7M barrels/day in 2001. Thus, a day or two of production was lost.
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