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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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# _/ e, V' s9 D7 QNo one was hurt in the incident which happened after a fire broke out around midnight at its upgrader #1, Suncor said.+ S ?8 d4 f/ E C2 H! I% e# B# m9 s
! u- ~5 `0 q$ }+ u! o( D* {The energy giant said the 125,000-barrel-per-day unit was shut down after the fire, and it is currently assessing damage.
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, n1 H" ]; ]( GSuncor 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.0 `' Z0 \- ~5 H0 Y
2 B3 A* j( U' u4 o; ~According to Reuters, Suncor could not specify how much crude the unit was producing before the incident.
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A fire in upgrader number 2 last December took more than a month to repair. |
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