Assignments Recent consulting assignments carried out by Strategy West include: • Assisting an institutional investor with its due diligence evaluation of a potential oil sands industry corporate acquisition • Preparation of long-term bitumen production, synthetic crude oil production and unprocessed bitumen supply outlooks for the oil sands industry • Presentations on Canada’s oil sands industry to the clients of a multi-national brokerage firm in road shows through the United States and Europe • Evaluating Canadian oil sands industry regulatory requirements for a foreign multi-national prior to an oil sands industry corporate acquisition • Preparation of a long-term outlook for Western Canadian bitumen upgrading projects • Evaluation of the economic feasibility and development of regulatory applications for the developer of a proposed commercial oil shale project • Assessment of the economic feasibility of a world-scale polygeneration facility in the Province of Saskatchewan • Assistance and advice to the developer of a new grass-roots oil sands upgrading project • Documentation of federal and provincial oil sands regulatory requirements • Development of a procedure manual, process flow diagrams, and industry training material for the oil sands royalty approval process • Assistance with the preparation of regulatory applications for a proposed oil sands project • Evaluation of supply costs for various oil sands in situ, mining/extraction and upgrading technologies • Assessment of the economic impact of oil sands development on a local, regional, provincial and national basis • Estimation of tax revenues for a proposed oil sands development • Briefing on the oil sands industry to the Investment Committee of a large Canadian private equity fund • Briefings on the oil sands industry to Boards of Directors and senior management • Providing oil sands industry, company and project information to investment bankers and industry investors Strategy West's oil sands industry training services are described below: Bob Dunbar presents the Strategy West course "Introduction to the Canadian Oil Sands" through the Petroleum Institute for Continuing Education (PEICE). Further information including a course description, course outline, scheduled course dates and on-line registration is available by clicking on the following link. Introduction to the Canadian Oil Sands Bob Dunbar began oil sands industry training in 2001 as the developer and presenter of the course "Canada's Oil Sands Industry", offered through the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI). Bob is no longer presenting the CERI oil sands course. 