The Royal Canadian Mounted Police captured a lone gunman who fired multiple rounds at a Halliburton facility in Alberta without any injuries, according to reports.
Shots rang out in the southwest industrial area of the town of Clairmont near Grande Prairie in the western section of the energy-producing province, police said.
Cops surrounded the facility and cut off traffic after witnesses reported hearing gunfire at around 7:50 p.m., the Grande Prairie Herald Tribune reported. They arrested a 58-year-old male suspect without any shots being fired, CBC News reported.
The area contains about 9,000 oil and gas wells, netting 2 million cubic meters of oil annually and more than 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas, according to a 2014 economic profile released by the city of Grande Prairie.
Houston-based Halliburton announced 6,200 layoffs in Alberta in February amid slumping oil and gas prices, the Calgary Herald reported.
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