Oct 1 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc reported itwas restarting an unspecified unit at its Scotford upgraderfacility near Edmonton, Alberta, according to a message recordedon a community information telephone line on Tuesday.
The activity could result in intermittent flaring over thenext 48 hours, the message said.
Shell runs a 255,000-barrel-per-day oil sands upgraderfacility and a 100,000-bpd refinery at Scotford.
This is the third time since Saturday that the Scotfordfacility is reporting unit restart at its upgrader.
The company did not comment on any queries related to theunit restart. (Reporting by Anupam Chatterjee in Bangalore; Editing bySubhranshu Sahu)