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Does sending oil east make sense?
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Continuing discussions of the proposed pipelines heading west.
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Southern Pacific, known as STP, said it invested more than $440 million on its first oil sands facility. The company aims to produce as much as 12,000 bpd from the site from Alberta and Saskatchewan oil fields.
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Commentary increases with the submission of TransCanada's new Keystone application.
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''If Statoil does not address the concerns of the Norwegian Church Council, then we will disown the shares that we have in the company. This issue was addressed in an internal meeting in April and the Sami Church Council is also supporting us on this issue.”
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