Suncor says extreme weather and fires forced shutdown of Colorado refinery | 24CA News

Suncor Energy Inc. says its Colorado refinery is offline following a number of fires and it expects it to be out of fee till late March.

The firm says the 98,000-barrel-a-day Commerce City refinery was broken by the intense and record-setting climate that swept throughout massive components of the continent, main it to provoke a shutdown of the refinery on Dec. 24.

Notifications from the corporate present early harm included a pump hearth on Dec. 19, whereas alarms had been triggered on Dec. 22 and Dec. 24 with a warning that group members could have seen smoke.

Suncor says one other hearth broke out on Dec. 27 as the corporate was working to close down your complete refinery to conduct inspections and repairs.

The firm says there aren’t any reported accidents, and that air high quality information confirmed no “acute” public well being issues.

Suncor is underneath heightened scrutiny for its security file after a minimum of 12 staff have died at its oilsands operations in northern Alberta since 2014, whereas earlier in December Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil and gasoline regulator laid costs towards the corporate for alleged security violations.