Great dirt and terrific people

摘要

On October 16, Neil Camarta, senior vice president, oil sands, Petro-Canada, made a lively presentation to a crowd of 85 industry people and students at the McGill Faculty Club. His presentation, "Great Dirt, Great People," gave an overview of the complex process of extracting, processing, and refining oil sands. He discussed the economics of an oil sands business and the current challenges Petro-Canada is facing to turn its 10 billion barrel oil sands deposits into a potential to produce up to 320,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil per day.