One of Hawaii’s two oil refineries was trying to get some of its production units back in business today after shutting them down a week ago apparently due to ‘dips’ in the power supply.

Pacific Business News has the scoop about what caused a drop in production at the Kapolei refinery that Tesoro has put up for sale.

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