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Imperial Oil Begins Decommissioning of Canadian Refinery
Imperial Oil Ltd. (Imperial) has begun the decommissioning process of their Dartmouth refinery on Canada's East Coast, local media outlet the Herald reports.
Imperial spokesperson Merle MacIsaac said that the decommissioning and converting of the refinery in Dartmouth will take several years.
"We're in the decommissioning phase," he said. "We're removing hydrocarbons from processing equipment."
The Dartmouth location, which opened in 1918 and used to process roughly 88,000 barrels of crude oil each day, last year stopped producing bunker fuel commercially for the Canadian Port of Halifax.
The Port Authority later announced a deal with Sterling Fuels Ltd. (Sterling) to allow the sales of bunker fuel to resume.
The Imperial refinery in Dartmouth had been looking for a buyer since May of 2012 and was already planning to turn the location into a tank farm if a buyer couldn't be found.
