Imperial delays key project

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IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $36 (Toronto symbol IMO; Cyclical-Growth Payer Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 792.7 million; Market cap: $28.5 billion; Dividend yield: 2.1%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.imperialoil.ca) last raised its dividend by 18.8% with the July 2018 payment. The new annual rate of $0.76 yields 2.1%. The company plans to slow work on its new Aspen oil sands development in response to the Alberta government’s new caps on oil production in that province. It now expects to finish the project in 2023 instead of 2022. Once complete, Aspen will produce 75,000 barrels a day. That’s equal to 20% of the 383,000 barrels a day that Imperial produced in 2018. Future expansion could further increase its daily output to 150,000 barrels a day. Imperial Oil is a buy. buy. …