Tar Sands As the fire continues to rage, now moving to more sparsely populated areas, oil sands producers who saw some 1.3 million barrels per day taken offline are now talking about bringing operations back online with varying success, but thermal projects face disaster. Canadian giant Enbridge expects to resume oil sands shipments from Alberta in a matter of days, after shutting down operations on 4 May in the face of the raging wildfires. Operations at Enbridge’s Cheecham project resumed yesterday and the company has also said it is ready to restart the Woodland pipeline, though an exact date remains elusive due to ongoing firefighting efforts. Volumes are already being put through Enbridges Waupisco and Athabasca pipelines. In all, due to the wildfires, Enbridge saw its pipeline volume drop by 900,000 barrels per day out of an average of 2.5 million bpd. Nexen, of CNOOC, has issued a force […]