A massive fire broke out at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery’s jet production unit on Thursday night,Chevron shut down the majority of the refinery, which is its second-largest refinery in the country and the “largest oil-producing site on the west coast.”I thought I was gonna die at #TopGolf after a huge explosion went off at Chevron El Segundo Refinery. I’ll call them tomorrow to settle my tab 🙂 pic.twitter.com/J7p9qhXN9i — Ash (@9021mobb) October 3, 2025Massive explosion of an oil refinery near El Segundo LA pic.twitter.com/FswK48Ocja — Sri Shenoy (@Sri_Shenoy) October 3, 2025ALERTCalifornia cameras maintained by UC San Diego captured the initial explosion tonight at the Chevron El Segundo Oil Refinery right outside Los Angeles, which resulted in a large fire at the refinery, though authorities state that the fire is currently contained to only one… pic.twitter.com/JtoYwmSAQd — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 3, 2025This was the view of the El Segundo Chevron refinery blaze from my neighborhood in Manhattan Beach. pic.twitter.com/I475JysGvd — Norgard (@BrianNorgard) October 3, 2025The El Segundo refinery is also California’s second-largest refinery. A year before that in 2017, a fire broke out near the storage tanks at the refinery. If the Chevron El Segundo refinery has to go offline for any amount of time, gas prices in CA, AZ, NV are going to soar.