Chevron taps Canadian shale oil

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CHEVRON CORP. $116 (New York symbol CVX; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.9 billion; Market cap: $220.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.9; Dividend yield: 3.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.chevron.com) plans to begin developing its properties in the Duvernay shale oil field in central Alberta. Initially, it will develop 55,000 of the 330,000 acres it controls in that region. Commercial production could begin in 2019. The company has yet to reveal how much it would spend on the project. However, new drilling technologies have significantly cut costs for shale oil production. That cuts the risk of a decline in crude prices. Chevron is a buy. buy…