Two oil sands upgraders in Alberta – Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) and Suncor Energy’s (NYSE:SU) Syncrude – are warning customers about cuts to synthetic crude output in November because of upsets at the plants, Reuters reports.
Shell Canada is telling customers that synthetic crude volumes from its 255K bbl/day Scotford upgrader may be lowered this month and possibly next month because of a valve leak, and the Syncrude oil sands project, which has capacity to produce nearly 350K bbl/day, also is telling customers it will cut synthetic crude volumes by ~5% in November, according to the report.