Another Oil Giant Casting Out Oil Sands Bogs

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Are Albertans tired of this shit yet?


Exxon Casts Out Canadian Oil Sands in Massive Reserves Slump​


Exxon counted the equivalent of 15.2 billion barrels of reserves as of Dec. 31, down from 22.44 billion a year earlier, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday. The company’s reserves of the dense, heavy crude extracted from Western Canada’s sandy bogs dropped by 98%.

In practical terms, the revision clipped Exxon’s future growth prospects until oil prices rise, costs slide or technological advances make it profitable to drill those fields.