BP finally relents, counts oilsands in global tally

Oilsands skeptic BP PLC has finally caved after years of ignoring Alberta’s oil-soaked dirt in its influential tally of world energy resources.

The oil giant, one of the few super-majors in the world without a significant oilsands project under development, has long been reluctant to count the number of potential barrels in the unconventional, economically challenged oilsands in its annual Statistical Review Of World Energy.