Suncor issued an alert for local residents Tuesday morning, saying they may have heard an alarm or seen smoke coming from the refinery.
Suncor shut down its Commerce City refinery in December 2022 after it suffered equipment damage as a result of extreme weather in the week leading up to Christmas.The company says the 98,000-barrel-a-day refinery was damaged by the extreme and record-setting weather that swept across large parts of the continent, leading it to initiate a shutdown of the refinery on Dec. 24.
Notifications from the company show that early damage included a pump fire on Dec. 19, while alarms were triggered on Dec. 22 and Dec. 24 with a warning that community members may have seen smoke.Suncor said another fire broke out on Dec. 27 as the company was working to shut down the entire refinery to conduct inspections and repairs.Two Suncor employees were transported to a hospital with burns after one of the fires.
The incident happened on the same day the Canadian energy giant announced a new CEO after a disturbing series of workplace deaths.
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