Much of the gas being produced, when you add in all the expenses including building gathering systems, purification plants, and accounting for the bad wells, lose money on a pure cash flow basis.

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The primary difference between bitumen and ordinary crude is the size of the hydrocarbon molecules: in liquid oil, these molecules contain between five and twenty carbon atoms, while in bitumen they contain more than twenty. (At room temperature, pure bitumen is so viscous that it will not flow.) The main job of the upgrader is to break down the oversized hydrocarbons into smaller units.

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As a publicly traded pure play in residential security, ADT has an advantage in its recognizable brand, its dominant share and cash-flow-rich economics similar to those of cable television.

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