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Refinery status worldwide from public records: EIA, EPA ECHO and NRC in the U.S., CER in Canada, and national ministries, operators and OPEC/Energy Institute data elsewhere. News is an unverified lead. Causes are not stated.

Western Canada · CFA Prairies

Scotford Upgrader

Shell Canada Limited · Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta

Capacity
320,000 b/d
synthetic crude oil (SCO) production capacity, barrels per day (not atmospheric fuels-refinery capacity), as of 2022-02. Source: Canada Energy Regulator.
Bitumen upgrader adjacent to Scotford Refinery. CER 2022 lists 320 kb/d SCO. Oil Sands Magazine later cites ~328–329 kb/d nameplate SCO.
Oil Sands Magazine: 328,000 b/d as of 2026-08. synthetic crude oil production capacity (nameplate). Within 5% (2.5%).Industry project page; SCO measure, not CFA fuels-map atmospheric capacity.
Status
Unknown
Bitumen upgrader
Status from the shared downtime check (Google News, Ontario SAC / AER feeds where matched, external-findings).
Downtime check
Covered by the shared operating-status check (Google News, Ontario SAC and AER feeds where matched, external findings). See /status for the latest run.
DirectoryMap
NACEI colocates Scotford Upgrader with Scotford Refinery at 53.796369, -113.090808. Marker offset slightly within the Scotford complex so the upgrader and fuels refinery both plot.

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