Alberta firefighters successfully defended Suncor Energy Inc. and Syncrude Canada Ltd.’s oil-sands sites from wildfires as rain brought some relief and the blaze that shut more than a million barrels a day of production in Canada’s oil patch expanded in other directions. The fire, which has doubled to an area more than five times bigger than New York City in about a week, burned up to and around the companies’ oil-sands mines and is now spreading east into remote forests of neighboring Saskatchewan, said Chad Morrison, an Alberta fire official. Firefighters were helped by “a trace” of rain Thursday morning with more showers forecast for the coming days. The blaze, which erupted at the beginning of the month, burned entire neighborhoods in Fort McMurray and forced the evacuation of more than 80,000 people from the […]