Refinery stacks performed standard flaring after power outage

Update (6:14 PM): Officials with Marathon Petroleum Corp. say that due to a power outage, the refinery started performing standard flaring procedures to ensure excess gases could not build up.

Read the statement below:

"Due to a power outage from a third-party provider, operating conditions at Marathon’s El Paso refinery have made flaring necessary. Flares are safety devices that allow for the safe combustion of excess gases during certain operating conditions. There have been no injuries. Air monitoring is being deployed as a precaution, and no off-site impacts have been detected. The safety of workers, our neighbors, and the environment is our top priority as we address the situation."

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

Update (5:48 PM): We are getting in more images of the smoke coming out of the stacks at the refinery. Viewers continue to submit images and videos of the smoke.

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Two stacks are spewing black smoke at the refinery in South-Central El Paso.

El Paso Fire say that crews has reached out to Marathon Petroleum and made comment. They say that the stacks are running normally and that the refinery has emergency crews on stand by if needed.

Numerous El Pasoans are calling into our newsroom and sharing images of the smoke. ABC-7 has crews going to the scene.

The smoke can be seen from miles around.

ABC-7 has reached out to the refinery for comment.