{"id":14384,"date":"2025-06-01T08:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=14384"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:20:55","slug":"canadian-oil-sands-company-evacuates-workers-due-to-wildfire-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/14384\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian oil sands company evacuates workers due to wildfire threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

RoydadNaft – <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Canadian oil sands company MEG Energy said on Friday it evacuated all nonessential workers from its Christina Lake production facility in northern Alberta due to wildfires burning in the area.<\/p>\n

The company said it has not curtailed its oil production at the site, which is located 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray.<\/p>\n

Wildfires burning in Canada’s oil-producing province of Alberta have affected the operations of several companies this week. Cenovus Energy said on Wednesday it was scaling back nonessential workers at its Foster Creek facility as a precaution due to wildfires in the vicinity of Chipewyan Lake.<\/div>\n

A separate wildfire in the Swan Hills region of the province caused Aspenleaf Energy to halt operations as a precaution and shut in approximately 4,000 barrels per day of oil equivalent production, the company said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Wildfires have hit oil and gas production in Canada several times in the past decade.<\/p>\n

In May of 2023, companies shut in at least 319,000 boepd, or 3.7% of Canada’s total production, as more than 100 wildfires burned in Alberta.<\/div>\n
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In 2016, thousands of oil sands workers were evacuated as a monster wildfire destroyed part of the community of Fort McMurray, forcing companies to reduce their oil output by a million barrels per day.<\/div>\n
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