Suncor adds to its North Sea operations

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SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $36 (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $61.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 3.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.suncor.com) has agreed to take a 30% stake in the Rosebank offshore oil project. That is 130 kilometres northwest of the Shetland Islands in the North Sea. The company will make an initial payment of $50 million U.S. by the end of 2016. Rosebank is still in the early design and engineering phase. If Suncor and its partners decide to develop this field, it will have to contribute an additional $165 million U.S. Rosebank could produce 100,000 barrels of oil and 80 million cubic feet of natural gas a day. Suncor’s share of 34,000 barrels of oil equivalent is equal to 10% of the 330,700 barrels a day it produced in the second quarter of 2016. That included 73,200 barrels from the company’s current operations in the North Sea. Suncor is…