Assignments Recent consulting assignments carried out by Strategy West include: • Preparation of long-term bitumen production, synthetic crude oil production and unprocessed bitumen supply outlooks for the oil sands industry • Preparation of a long-term outlook for Western Canadian bitumen upgrading projects • Evaluation of long-term oil sands industry energy and hydrogen requirements • Assessment of the technical and economic feasibility of various fuel and product options for 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 • Evaluation of long-term base aggregate requirements for the oil sands industry • Assessment of oil sands industry requirements for chemical reagents for gasification, flue gas desulphurization and boiler feedwater treating processes • Examination of cogeneration opportunities for Canadian oil sands projects • Development of the feedstock supply outlook for a proposed bitumen upgrading project • Modelling of the potential for production of hydrogen from natural gas for fuel cell vehicles in Canada • 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 and mining/extraction recovery technologies and upgrading facilities • 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. 