Talisman hears the call of oil sands

Chief Executive Officer Jim Buckee expects decision this year on way to monetize oil sands 25,000 acres of sands leases

Gary Park

For Petroleum News

Call it the latter-day conversion of Jim Buckee. The chief executive officer of Talisman Energy, who is not known for caving in to pressure of any kind, is apparently on the verge of giving up a decade of spurning the oil sands. He surprised a conference call March 1 when he said that some time this....

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