An earlier CNRL leak in Cold Lake, Alberta (Chester Dawson / Wall Street Journal)
COLD LAKE, Alta. – The Alberta Energy Regulator is investigating another leak from a Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) bitumen well near Cold Lake.
The regulator says 27,000 litres of crude bitumen were released underground on Jan. 3 at the company’s troubled Primrose field.
But agency spokesman Darin Barter said the leak has been stopped.
“There was no release to surface,” Barter said Friday. “There’s no aquifers that have been impacted by this incident.”
Barter said the release has been definitively attributed to a failed well (Read more…)