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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.: P+ A }7 A+ C5 c
: ^. o' z2 H3 t6 q' k. aNo one was hurt in the incident which happened after a fire broke out around midnight at its upgrader #1, Suncor said.9 F5 x8 [, s8 _2 v3 }" O
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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.
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3 a5 V9 Z/ i0 C: t v JSuncor 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.& U- f6 B) j. c( j4 i1 J0 U' ~
- h0 f N) e rAccording to Reuters, Suncor could not specify how much crude the unit was producing before the incident./ F* C0 ?1 N6 Z
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A fire in upgrader number 2 last December took more than a month to repair. |
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