Alberta Pipeline Disrupted as Fire Season Starts in Oil Patch
- Inter Pipeline cuts power to part of Polaris line amid blaze
- Heavy Canadian oil discount shrinks to smallest since October
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Wildfire season in Alberta began with a blaze that cut power to a key pipeline in the oil sands, causing heavy crude prices to surge.
Inter Pipeline Ltd. is in the process of restoring service to parts of its Polaris Pipeline system after power was cut to the line’s Lamont Station on Sunday, the company said Tuesday. The line, which carried 194,000 barrels a day last year, supplies light oil from the Edmonton area to the Athabasca and Cold Lake areas of Alberta, where it’s used to diluted bitumen so that the heavy crude can flow freely through pipelines to refineries.