In December Ivanhoe Energy Inc. completed two Chinese assets sales to help reduce debt. In addition to strengthening the balance sheet, the sales were a part of a strategy to focus the company's attention on developing heavy oil projects in Canada and Ecuador as well as advancing its proprietary heavy-to-light (HTL) oil upgrading technology. Ivanhoe co-chair Robert Friedland was buying Ivanhoe Energy shares late last fall. This week he was buying again. On Jan. 23 he picked up 2.2 million shares at 90 cents.
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