The Rafael Ravard Refinery outside of Baton Rouge, LA went into an emergency shutdown early this morning. According to Cesar Chavez, spokesperson for the refinery, the cause of the shutdown was due to multiple servers in the process control system crashing at nearly the same time. “Automatic backups did not come online,” Chavez reported; “But local safety systems throughout the plant did allow for a safe shutdown.”
There were local reports of people observing widespread flaring throughout the refinery during the shutdown. “Flaring is a normal occurrence in safety shutdowns,” Chavez explained.
Dragonfire Cyber has a team on site. Kate Libby, a spokesperson for Dragonfire said: “We are working with the Ravard Refinery to determine the cause of the shutdown. We have no news at this time beyond being able to report that three Robotron servers at the facility all shut down. This was the proximate cause of the facility shutting down.”
A technician working with Dragonfire who is not authorized to talk to reporters told me that the server room had apparently overheated. “This was probably the reason that the three initial servers crashed,” she said; “Two other servers crashed shortly after our team arrived on site.”
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