Distance RUNNERS

摘要

WHEN RAY JOYCE CAME TO CALGARY from the United Kingdom, he was surprised. "It was a shock to the system," says Joyce, who crossed the pond in the 1960s from Liverpool, a city of one million, and arrived in Calgary - a city that held less than a third as many people. "I kept looking for the people. Now I want them all to leave. It's too crowded. It's funny how your perceptions change." His about-face mirrors the changing outlook for North American light oil. It's no secret that producers, armed with new technology, are rapidly fanning out to old haunts once written off as marginal assets that had outlived their productive lives.