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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Sask has different rules around water treatment ect that drive up the cost here in Alberta. All the smaller AB based SAGD operators have gone belly up, Connacher, Pengrowth, Sunshine. Athabasca is circling the drain. Who knows if Cona, JACOS or OSUM are actually making money, they are either private or buried in a parent with deep pockets.
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That's a fair point. Water treatment definitely has huge scale benefits. I've worked on development of SAGD projects on both sides of the border, and as a citizen I think the AB water rules are better. Use that much water and it is responsible to recycle it.
I still think at a low enough SOR something Lindberg size works nicely. Connacher had huge reservoir problems and had a huge SOR - they never really got conformance. Even Athabasca SOR is much higher than Lindberg iirc.