Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Marathon to buy Western Oil Sands for $5.56 bln

(Reuters) - The company also said its second-quarter profit fell on a decline in oil and gas output and the absence of a year-ago gain from the sale of Russian operations.




Houston-based Marathon has long been looking for a partner in the Canadian oil sands. Still, it is expensive and requires special equipment to turn the tar-like sludge that comes from the region -- called bitumen -- into usable fuel.


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