Oilsands Review is the only publication devoted entirely to covering the issues, challenges, and triumphs of the unconventional oil industry. It is the comprehensive source for stories, statistics, and information for those with an interest in unconventional oil.

This monthly publication covers the international unconventional oil industry, with the vast oilsands resource in northern Alberta as the magazine’s primary focus. This region is experiencing massive growth and unprecedented interest in its potential—and its stability—from companies, investors, and governments around the world.

Oilsands Review provides readers with compelling editorial coverage of the unconventional oil industry by telling its stories through a broad range of voices from inside the industry. This, combined with informative statistics, maps, and charts, makes the publication an invaluable resource for our readers.

Editorial Mandate

The Oilsands Review is committed to providing unconventional oil coverage that is timely, relevant, and balanced. It reflects the interests of the unconventional oil industry and stakeholders in Canada and around the world, including governments, communities, First Nations, and environmental groups.

Departments

In addition to monthly feature stories on topical issues affecting the unconventional oil industry, the Oilsands Review engages its readers through its departmental content:

• Project Status: A detailed, regularly updated listing of unconventional oil projects underway, including production sites, Canadian upgraders and refineries, and the pipelines that ultimately take this increasingly important crude to market.
• In Review: The news, clues, and quirks of the unconventional oil industry, including career announcements and business notes.
• Project Profile: In-depth descriptions of new and existing unconventional oil projects all the way down the value chain.
• Environment: Focusing on efforts for sustainable development and their levels of success.
• Research and Development: Keeping tabs on the latest to make unconventional oil production and processing more efficient, economical, and sustainable.
• Personality Profile: The people who make the industry pulse and hold it to task.
• Upgrading and Refining: An eye on the sector that turns Canada’s sticky black bitumen to gold, including the latest developments in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland.
• Eyes on the Oilsands: A synopsis of select international media coverage of the oilsands industry. (NEW!)
• Manpower: Strategies for, solutions to, and insights into workforce issues. (NEW!)
• CV: Career profiles in the unconventional oil industry.
• Legal Lessons: The unconventional oil industry and the law.
• Sector Watch: Stock updates from the Oil Sands Sector Index. (NEW!)
• Statistics: Bitumen and synthetic crude production numbers, oil prices in western Canadian hubs contrast against benchmark West Texas Intermediate, natural gas prices in Alberta, North American steel prices, Alberta labour force statistics, and Crown land sales of oilsands leases.
• Quarterly Mining Financials: Details and analysis of key truck-and-shovel producers’ results. (NEW!)
• Quarterly In Situ Financials: Details and analysis of key well-and-lift producers’ results. (NEW!)

Product Extensions

Oilsands Review Online @ oilsandsreview.com

Oilsandsreview.com is the authoritative source of unconventional oil information on the Internet. Visitors to the site will find the latest unconventional oil headlines, complimentary access to key feature articles from the current issue, comprehensive and regularly updated oilsands project lists, a library of unconventional oil photographs, and comprehensive links to valuable educational resources, as well as companies and stakeholders involved with development.

Maps and Charts

Oilsands Review is recognized in the unconventional oil industry for its specialized wall maps and charts, which are published monthly and distributed to subscribers. These information-rich materials provide relevant and up-to-date information that is often referred to on a daily basis by those working in the industry. Please refer to JWP Maps and Charts Media Guide for a detailed review of what is planned for 2009. For more information click here.

Circulation and Distribution

Each month, Oilsands Review is delivered into the hands of more than 12,000 people in Canada and around the world—people with active interest, investment, or involvement in the unconventional oil industry. In fact, over 10 per cent of the magazine’s distribution is international, reaching readers as far away as Venezuela and the United Arab Emirates. Oilsands Review has an effective combination of qualified, paid, and controlled circulations and is distributed at key unconventional oil conferences and trade shows around the world. Oilsands Review is also available at select newsstand locations across Alberta and can be purchased for $10 per copy.