CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian Oil Sands Ltd (>> Canadian Oil Sands Ltd) said on Thursday no product is being shipped from the Syncrude oil sands project in northern Alberta after a gas pipeline outage on Transcanada Corp's (>> TransCanada Corporation) Nova system.

"We understand there has been an outage on a natural gas pipeline that feeds into Syncrude. We cannot ship any product at this point; we have dialled back operations," spokeswoman Siren Fisekci said.

Canadian Oil Sands is the largest shareholder in the Syncrude project, which is a joint venture with Imperial Oil Ltd (>> Imperial Oil Limited), Mocal Energy, Murphy Oil Corp (>> Murphy Oil Corporation), Nexen Inc, Sinopec Corp, and Suncor Energy Inc (>> Suncor Energy Inc.).

(Reporting by Nia Williams; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)