Manufacturers of oil, Suncor Energy, Royal Dutch Shell, Syncrude Canada and ConocoPhillips — estimated losses in production due to forest fires in the canadian province of Alberta million barrels per day, according to Bloomberg.
Shell has resumed production at the Albian Sands project, ConocoPhillips and sent a team of experts to its object (the Surmont field). Suncor is expected to resume production in a week.
Suncor and Syncrude stated that they managed to preserve the production without damage from fire, which will facilitate its early resumption.
Canadian authorities announced on Monday, may 9, that the rains and low temperatures have reduced the area of the fires, but it is still two times the size of new York. Large-scale fires in Alberta began on 4 may.
May 9 oil quotations Brent have fallen to 46,48 to the accounting period by 43.46 per barrel on the news about changes in the government of Saudi Arabia and information about what the fires in Canada have begun to retreat from the fields.
