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The oil-sands operations in northern Alberta are among the costliest types of petroleum projects to develop because the raw bitumen extracted from the region must be processed and converted to a thick, synthetic crude oil. These operations have been particularly hard hit by the worst oil slump in a generation. Exxon and Conoco, for example, have removed a combined 4.65 billion barrels of oil-sands crude worth $183 billion from their books. Under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules, proved reserves can only include oil and gas fields that can be produced economically within the next half decade.
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Canada’s Oil Sands: Big Energy Producers’Achilles Heel
