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Sources say that Colonial Pipeline is experiencing a fuel supply interruption on its main lines.

Three market sources said on Thursday that the Colonial Pipeline, which is the largest fuel conduit in America, has an outage across all its main delivery lines. The outage started around 5 a.m. One of the sources on the market said that "computer problems" were to blame for Thursday's outage. Source: The source did not know the exact nature of these issues.

Sources requested anonymity in order to discuss confidential data. Colonial Pipeline didn't immediately respond to our request for comment.

According to its website, the Colonial Pipeline transports over 2.5 million barrels of fuel per day across its 5,500-mile network that stretches from the U.S. Gulf Coast towards major consumption centres along the U.S. East Coast.

The company claims that its pipelines transport about 45% all the fuel consumed along the East Coast. (Reporting and editing by Chizu Nomiyama in New York, Shariq Khan from New York)

(source: Reuters)