Oil and gas producers in Alberta are temporarily shutting in production as wildfires rage across the energy-producing province.
Vermilion Energy Inc. has shut-in about 30,000 barrels per day of production, while Paramount Resources Ltd. said on Sunday its operations in the Grande Prairie and Kaybob regions in Alberta are being affected and that it temporarily has curtailed about 50,000 barrels per day of production. The Trans Mountain pipeline itself, and the expansion project under construction, have not been affected.
According to the Canada Energy Regulator, the Fort McMurray wildfire in May 2016 resulted in oilsands production losses as high as one million barrels per day at the height of the disaster.
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