Article: Medicine Hat seeks bids in its heavy oil field. (Medicine Hat, Alberta)

OTTAWA -- Medicine Hat, a southern Alberta city that already collects about US$43 million a year from the sale of natural gas it owns, now wants to cash in on a heavy oil field it controls.

The city, which owns the mineral rights to a large gas reservoir beneath the city, plans to auction off a heavy oil reserve it discovered within its boundaries in 1984.

It has hired Calgary-based Kobayashi & Associates Ltd. to solicit bids on the 5,000 ...

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