Update – Shell Restarting Scotford/Edmonton RefineryNEW YORK, Oct 5, 2009 (Reuters) – Shell Oil Co was restarting some units at its 155,000 barrel-per-day Scotford refinery near Edmonton, Canada, the refinery reported in a weekend notice on a community information line.
“We are in the process of restarting units at our refinery following a scheduled maintenance turnaround,” said the notice, which was posted on Sunday and did not specify which units were being restarted.
The notice said that flaring would occur at the refinery during the next 48 hours due to the restarts.
The company and issued a similar notice early last week but also did not specify at the time which units were being restarted. Shell had reported it began the maintenance at the plant in early September.
The refinery is supplied by Shell’s adjacent 155,000 bpd Scotford upgrader, which processes bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands project in northern Alberta.
(Reporting by Haitham Haddadin; Editing by John Picinich)
