By Tracy Johnson, CBC News Posted: Mar 09, 2017 4:17 PM ET
Royal Dutch Shell’s deal to sell most of its stake in Alberta’s oilsands was in the works for more than a year, says the company’s chief executive Ben van Beurden.
“We said we would high-grade the portfolio,” he said at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston.
“We would get out of positions where we do not have the scale or the capability, or that did not fit us in the longer run strategically. And the oilsands is one of them.”