[Ost-news] China National Petroleum Co. starts Exploring in Tar Sands

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CNPC Signs Canadian Oil-Sands Agreement  
2007-07-02  
The Wall Street Journal  
[http://english.cri.cn/3130/2007/07/02/262@244638.htm][1]

In a sign of the expanding international ambitions of China's oil companies, China National Petroleum Corp. has bought the rights to explore for oil in Canada.

The state-owned parent of Hong Kong- and New York-listed PetroChina Co. will develop an oil-sands field that is estimated to contain about two billion barrels of a thick and hard-to-process form of oil called bitumen.

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    [1]: http://english.cri.cn/3130/2007/07/02/262@244638.htm (http://english.cri.cn/3130/2007/07/02/262@244638.htm)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/china-national-petroleum-co-starts-exploring-tar-sands

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