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CALGARY - A fire has halted operations at one of Suncor Energy's two oilsands upgraders north of Fort McMurray, the company said Tuesday.
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$ D8 U/ W z& ?; x, d9 G! dNo one was hurt in the incident which happened after a fire broke out around midnight at its upgrader #1, Suncor said.
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The energy giant said the 125,000-barrel-per-day unit was shut down after the fire, and it is currently assessing damage. l/ G$ P0 c5 \+ A
% m' \. a$ a1 x) n. kSuncor has been plagued by a series fires at its oilsands operations in the past five months, suffering three fires since October in the upgraders which convert bitumen into synthetic crude oil.
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According to Reuters, Suncor could not specify how much crude the unit was producing before the incident.* Z& I& G% L; f9 T; p
* B7 W6 U `1 W, [A fire in upgrader number 2 last December took more than a month to repair. |
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