NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Citgo Petroleum shut down its 177,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery at Lemont, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon due to a power blip by its electricity supplier, the company confirmed on Thursday.

The refinery experienced a flaring event during the shutdown process, the company said.

"Units were stabilized and we began the restart process after power was restored last night," the company said in an email. "We will continue to raise rates and return to normal operations throughout the day."

The refinery manufactures several grades of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and high-quality hydrocarbon solvents, according to the company's website.

The cause of the outage is still under investigation, the refinery's power supplier ComEd said on Thursday.

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