ConocoPhillips has announced it will restart production at the Surmount oil sands project, as the northern Alberta wildfire threat subsides. The company said the minor damage caused to the site by the fire would not affect operations and that the facility would incrementally recover its 30,000 barrel-per-day production rate in the near future. The timing for ConocoPhillips’ restart couldn’t come soon enough. A majority of Petro-Canada stations in Regina ran out of all grades of gasoline Monday morning, according to report by Leaderpost , due in part to the scale of the wildfires and an unanticipated power outage at an Edmonton refinery. Stations in the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia have also been affected by the supply shortage. “We do have a team that is working quickly to make the necessary repair, and bring that unit back into service as promptly and safely as possible,” […]