MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shell Canada, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell, has warned customers synthetic crude volumes from its 255,000-bpd Scotford, Alberta, upgrader may be reduced in November and potentially December, reported Hydrocarbonprocessing with reference to traders.
A Shell spokeswoman declined to comment.
In a separate incident, the Syncrude oil sands project in northern Alberta has also told customers it will cut synthetic crude volumes by around 5% in November, two trading sources said.
Syncrude has capacity to produce nearly 350,000 bpd.
A Syncrude spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
As MRC wrote previously, in November 2017, Royal Dutch Shell Plc canceled a plan to permanently close the gasoline-producing unit at its 227,586 bpd Convent, Louisiana, oil refinery.
Royal Dutch Shell plc is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the biggest company in the world in terms of revenue and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading.
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