used to get run outa the woods when logging---it's a first for me, in the oil patch...........
Things were hot in northwestern BC today as a forest fire continued to rage, more than quadrupling in size over the last 24 hours to 3,100 hectares. The blaze, exhibiting rank 3 and rank 4 behaviors on a scale of 6, even threatened the Alberta border as it moved at a blistering range of 1.5 – 6.0 metres a minute.
The all-consuming flames were spotted just 12 kilometres from Talisman Energy’s TSX:TLM, Ojay gas plant, located south of Dawson Creek, giving the company no choice but to evacuate the facilities. Very few workers were affected by the procedure that is estimated to cost the company a 2k – 3k barrel production drop until the facilities can be re-opened.
Talisman wasn’t the only firm forced to act, as Horizon North Logistics evacuated approximately 200 people from work camps in the area in response to an order from the BC Oil and Gas Commission and Shell shut down a few wells as a precautionary measure. However Shell doesn’t expect its shut down to have any serious material effect on production.
It is unknown when the fire might be contained as control efforts at the fire’s head may fail due to the fire’s intensity and predicted rains in northern BC will not hit the burning regions, leaving experts with the expectation that the blaze, currently sending a giant plume of smoke into the sky 60 kilometres outside of Tumbler Ridge, will only continue to grow over the next few days.
Things were hot in northwestern BC today as a forest fire continued to rage, more than quadrupling in size over the last 24 hours to 3,100 hectares. The blaze, exhibiting rank 3 and rank 4 behaviors on a scale of 6, even threatened the Alberta border as it moved at a blistering range of 1.5 – 6.0 metres a minute.
The all-consuming flames were spotted just 12 kilometres from Talisman Energy’s TSX:TLM, Ojay gas plant, located south of Dawson Creek, giving the company no choice but to evacuate the facilities. Very few workers were affected by the procedure that is estimated to cost the company a 2k – 3k barrel production drop until the facilities can be re-opened.
Talisman wasn’t the only firm forced to act, as Horizon North Logistics evacuated approximately 200 people from work camps in the area in response to an order from the BC Oil and Gas Commission and Shell shut down a few wells as a precautionary measure. However Shell doesn’t expect its shut down to have any serious material effect on production.
It is unknown when the fire might be contained as control efforts at the fire’s head may fail due to the fire’s intensity and predicted rains in northern BC will not hit the burning regions, leaving experts with the expectation that the blaze, currently sending a giant plume of smoke into the sky 60 kilometres outside of Tumbler Ridge, will only continue to grow over the next few days.