Shutdown lifts oil prices

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SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $54 (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.6 billion; Market cap: $86.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.7; Dividend yield: 2.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.suncor.com) is Canada’s largest integrated oil company, with its major projects in the Alberta oil sands. It also owns four refineries (three in Canada and one in Colorado), along with 1,500 Petro-Canada gas stations. It also owns 58.74% stake in the Syncrude oil sands complex near Fort McMurray, Alberta. An electrical problem has forced the facility to shut down. In the first quarter of 2018, Suncor’s share of Syncrude’s production totalled 142,300 barrels a day. That’s equal to 21% of its overall daily production of 689,400 barrels. Suncor is now repairing three of Syncrude’s oil-processing facilities. The first unit, which produces 150,000 barrels a day, should begin operating in the second half of July 2018. The company expects the second unit (100,000 barrels a day) to resume operating in August 2018. However, the third unit…