Oil Industry Insider Speaks at Inaugural Albert Einstein Business Forum

by Adrianne Fitch

Canada could become the next energy superpower by exploiting its vast oil sand deposits, an oil industry insider said recently.

However, an appalling lack of leadership, efficiency and engineering expertise have inflated mining costs and held the industry back, said Sam Spanglet, a former vice president of Oil Sands Shell and former president of Albian Sands.