Virus spreads in Canadian oil patch with outbreak at Chevron site
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Oil workers in Alberta are falling victim to a growing spread of the pandemic in the Canadian provinceâs remote north, with a Chevron Corp. site among the latest to be struck.
Chevronâs Kaybob operation in the Duvernay shale formation and Syncrude Canada Ltd.âs Aurora oil-sands mine were added to a government list that now figures 11 oil-production sites as outbreak locations. Other companies in the list include Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc. and Imperial Oil Ltd.
After being spared from the worst of the pandemic earlier this year, Canada is now averaging 6,500 new cases a day, more than triple the rate during the initial wave in April and May. Alberta, one of the last provinces to be badly hit, is now under strict lockdown measures with the highest rate of new active cases in the country.
FORT MCMURRAY Alberta Health has declared COVID-19 outbreaks at Suncor s Fort Hills site and Syncrude s Aurora site. At Fort Hills, a Suncor spokesperson said there have been 32 COVID-19 cases reported at the site. Of those, 14 remain active. Three active cases are employees and 11 are contractors. None of the active cases are from out of province, but a Suncor spokesperson did not know if any of the 18 recovered cases were from Alberta or elsewhere. At Aurora, Syncrude spokesperson Will Gibson did not know the specific details of the outbreak at the site. But across Syncrude s operations, he said there have been 210 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. There are 70 active cases and 140 recoveries. The cases have been found in employees and contractors.
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Oil workers in Alberta are falling victim to a growing spread of the pandemic in the Canadian province s remote north, with a Chevron Corp. site among the latest to be struck.
(Bloomberg) Oil workers in Alberta are falling victim to a growing spread of the pandemic in the Canadian province’s remote north, with a Chevron Corp. site among the latest to be struck.
Chevron’s Kaybob operation in the Duvernay shale formation and Syncrude Canada Ltd.’s Aurora oil-sands mine were added to a government list that now figures 11 oil-production sites as outbreak locations. Other companies in the list include Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc. and Imperial Oil Ltd.
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