* WCS for June delivery in Hardisty, Alberta, traded
from$14.00 to end at $13.60 a barrel under the benchmark,
according to brokerage CalRock. On Friday it traded between
$14.15 and $14.10 a barrel under WTI.
* Market players are concerned about wildfires in Alberta
that have shut in around 185,000 barrels of oil equivalent per
day of production, according to one Calgary-based trader. The
blazes are currently impacting mainly light oil and gas
production.
* So far companies have not reported any damage to
production facilities.
* Global oil prices rose over 2% as U.S. recession fears
eased and some traders saw crude's three-week slide on demand
worries as overdone.
* That put the outright price of WCS just under $60 a
barrel.
(Reporting by Nia Williams
Editing by Chris Reese)
May 8 (Reuters) - Western Canada Select (WCS) heavy
crude's discount to the benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
narrowed on Monday:
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