The Venezuelan Petroleum Corporation declared that it has received a permission to set up a joint venture with the PetroVietnam Exploration and Production Corporation to explore and exploit oil in the Orinoco belt. For full story, click here
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Total’s Joslyn and Surmont heavy-oil ventures in Canada are among the “building blocks” for boosting output from 2016, the company said in September. For full story, click here
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market news As predicted, the combination of falling oil prices, demand destruction and tight credit is beginning to affect heavy oil and oil sands. Energy stocks and trusts are down, and the news marginalia suggests that companies have a bleak outlook for the future profitability [...]
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Brass tacks In markets like these, it behooves investors, advisers, businesspeople and journalists to return to first principles. May I first offer a mea culpa for failing to forecast the precipitous decline in barrel prices? Sorry. Getting down to brass tacks, the economic fundamentals of [...]
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Friday, September 12, 2008
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market news Ouch! For our Canadian investors in commodities, times have certainly been better. The TSX has been dragged downward by mining and energy concerns this week, and investors are understandably worried. Some see it as a natural part of a cycle, others as a [...]
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Welcome back to the Upgrader. More Q 2 results were announced this week. The record heavy oil prices of the quarter have been kind to most, thought profits in refining operations have been hindered. Calgary’s Baytex Energy Trust (NYSE:BTE) was boosted by $125 million (CDN) [...]
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Aluminium venture of state owned Ma’aden in Saudi Arabia will be fuelled with heavy oil rather than natural gas. For full news, click here
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