Hunt Refining

Hunt Refining is a privately held petroleum refiner operating in the Southeastern United States, with facilities in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Sandersville, Mississippi. The company processes 52,000 barrels of crude oil per day, producing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt, and specialty petroleum products. It's an affiliate of Hunt Consolidated, Inc., and has been in operation since 1946.

For cybersecurity professionals, the threat model here is industrial. Refineries run on operational technology (OT) networks - SCADA systems, distributed control systems (DCS), and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that manage physical processes with real-world consequences. The attack surface spans IT/OT convergence points, legacy control systems that weren't designed for networked environments, and supply chain interfaces with long-standing partners and vendors. A breach isn't about data exfiltration headlines; it's about process disruption, safety incidents, and environmental compliance failures.

The security challenge is concrete: hardening OT environments without breaking decades-old control architectures, segmenting networks between corporate IT and plant-floor systems, monitoring for anomalies in industrial protocols, and managing third-party access across a supplier base that includes relationships spanning decades. The Southeastern U.S. footprint means hurricane resilience and business continuity planning factor into the risk calculus alongside traditional cyber threats.