Thursday, June 28, 2007

Petro-Canada, Partners Plan to Invest $24.6 Billion in Oil-Sands Project

(Bloomberg) -- Petro-Canada, the third-largest oil
company in Canada, and its partners will spend C$26.2 billion
($24.6 billion) on an oil-sands project in northern Alberta
that's one of the world's most costly energy developments.

The Fort Hills project is expected to produce 280,000
barrels of oil a day from the tar-like deposits by 2014, with
output starting in the second quarter of 2012, the Calgary-based
company said today in a statement. The project, under development
for more than five years, will tap oil reserves second only to
those in Saudi Arabia.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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