Fire at 103-Year-Old BP Refinery Kills Two, Halts Work (1)

BP Plc said two of its workers died in a fire at its oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio.

The fire was extinguished Tuesday night and the refinery, which supplies the Midwest with gasoline and diesel, has been shut, company spokesperson Megan Baldino said in an email. She did not elaborate on the extent of the damage or which units were impacted.

The refinery is one of the oldest in the US, originally built in 1919. This is the second fire since late August at two of BP’s three US refineries. The blaze began early Tuesday evening at the plant’s largest ...