Are they totally shutdown? And BP is a big company. If they can ship gas from out of state and sell for more here....?
Oil is a huge, entrenched, and connected business, with obscene amounts of money involved. Do you really trust them to NOT play games?
More knowledgeable guys than me will have to answer those questions. I do know that EPA regs have made smaller refineries around the region go out out business because they were too small to economically meet the new laws.
So we are hostage to BP Whiting. I told folks here in central Indiana that when the Marathon Rock Island Refinery in Indianapolis closed in 1993 it was a bad omen.