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(Reuters) -Gasoline shortages that have plagued the U.S. East Coast over the last week slowly eased on Sunday as the country\u2019s largest fuel pipeline network recovered from a crippling cyberattack.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: A motorist tops up the fuel in his car’s gas tank after a lengthy wait to enter a gasoline station during a surge in the demand for fuel following the cyberattack that crippled the Colonial Pipeline, in Durham, North Carolina, U.S. May 12, 2021. REUTERS\/Jonathan Drake<\/figcaption>

The six-day closure of Colonial Pipeline\u2019s 5,500-mile (8,900-km) system was the most disruptive cyberattack on record, preventing millions of barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from reaching fuel tanks throughout the eastern United States.<\/p>\n

Thousands of gas stations ran dry as supplies failed to arrive and drivers fearing a prolonged outage filled tanks and jerry cans. Refiners and fuel distributors are racing to recover before the Memorial Day holiday weekend at the end of May, the traditional start of the peak-demand summer driving season.<\/p>\n

\u201cColonial Pipeline is currently shipping at normal rates, based on shipper nominations,\u201d company spokesman Eric Abercrombie said in an email.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will take some time for the supply chain to fully catch up.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Washington, D.C., about 80% of stations were still empty, according to tracking firm GasBuddy.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, more than half of the stations were still out in North Carolina, while less than half of stations were without fuel in South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and Georgia, GasBuddy data showed.<\/p>\n

U.S. gasoline demand on Saturday dropped nearly 15% from a week earlier, according to GasBuddy, as drivers pulled back on fuel hoarding.<\/p>\n

Widespread panic buying even caused shortages in some areas not served by the pipeline.<\/p>\n

Average nationwide gasoline prices are at their highest since 2014, with a gallon of regular unleaded at $3.044 on Sunday, up from $3.042 the previous day and $2.96 a week ago, according to the American Automobile Association.<\/p>\n

\u2018GETTING BETTER\u2019<\/p>\n

Overall outages stood at 12,870 stations, down from 13,450 on Saturday and a peak of more than 16,000, said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, as drivers reduced panic buying and stations replenished supplies. There are around 150,000 gas stations in the United States, the world\u2019s largest oil consumer.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day gasoline supplies are getting better as Colonial operates at capacity and additional oil tankers from the Gulf Coast make their way to the East Coast,\u201d said Andy Lipow of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston.<\/p>\n

Citgo and Valero were among the refiners to receive Jones Act waivers to ship fuel on waterborne vessels from the U.S. Gulf Coast to help ease the East Coast\u2019s fuel crunch.<\/p>\n

Operators of the Colonial system, which transports 100 million gallons of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel daily to East Coast markets from Texas refineries, began resuming operations on Wednesday following the six-day outage.<\/p>\n

Alpharetta, Georgia-based Colonial said it would resume its regular nomination process to allocate capacity to companies that use the line on Monday.<\/p>\n

DarkSide, the group blamed for attacking Colonial Pipeline systems, has said it recently hacked four other companies.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg News and the New York Times said Colonial paid nearly $5 million to DarkSide hackers, but the company has not confirmed the ransom demand or the payment.<\/p>\n

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