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Vol. 8, No. 27 Week of July 06, 2003
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry

Oil sands take smaller steps

Hunt for cost controls in Alberta projects turns to phased projects

Gary Park

Petroleum News Calgary Correspondent

The think-big approach that has ruled development of Alberta’s oil sands over three decades is getting shrunk. Instead of the multi-billion-dollar schemes that have dominated exploitation of a 180 billion barrel resource, operators are finding greater virtue in phased developments as they wrestle w....

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