Updating Enbridge Inc., Imperial Oil Ltd., and Telus Corp.

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ENBRIDGE INC. $43 (www.enbridge.com) continues to sell some of its less-important assets to help pay down the debt it took on to buy Spectra Energy in February 2017. That firm operates crude oil and natural gas pipelines in the U.S. and Canada. As a result, Enbridge’s debt was $58.7 billion as of September 30, 2018, or a high 75% of its $77.9 billion market cap. In the third quarter of 2018, Enbridge received $5.7 billion from its asset sales. It also expects to complete $1.8 billion in additional sales by mid-2019. Hold. IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $42 (www.imperialoil.ca) produced 393,000 barrels a day in the third quarter of 2018, up 0.8% from 390,000 barrels a year earlier. The company’s 71%-owned Kearl oil sands project produced a record 244,000 barrels a day (173,000 to Imperial) in the quarter. That offset declines at the Cold Lake and Syncrude operations. Imperial now plans to build a new oil sands project called Aspen, which should produce 75,000 barrels a day by…