Nexen to shut down Long Lake facility after regulator orders pipeline suspension

CALGARY — Nexen Energy is shutting down its Long Lake oilsands operations as it complies with a pipeline suspension order from the Alberta Energy Regulator. The company, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned CNOOC Ltd., says it will take up to two weeks to complete the shutdown of the complex steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) operation, located about 36 kilometres southeast of Fort McMurray.