Why Invest

Canadian Oil Sands Trust is the only public investment vehicle that provides non-diversified ownership in Syncrude, the largest oil sands project in the world. The Syncrude asset offers investors:

• Long-life reserves.
  Proven, developed reserves represent more than a 35-year lifespan utilizing today's infrastructure with the potential to extend reserve life beyond the year 2050. These reserves are well defined.
  
  
• Production growth with no decline.
  Productive capacity is forecast to more than double from the current 250,000 barrels per day to over 500,000 barrels per day by 2015, based on current long-term plans. By 2010, Syncrude is expected to supply about 20% of Canada's crude oil energy needs.
  
  
• High-quality, synthetic light oil production.
  Syncrude Sweet Blend is valued by refineries and receives a premium price in the market, leading to a higher profit margin on the production.

Additionally, Canadian Oil Sands Trust offers:

• Greater market liquidity, lower administrative costs and lower cost of capital than other energy trusts.
  
  
• A Premium Distribution Reinvestment Plan (DRIP), which provides unitholders with several options to manage their investment in Canadian Oil Sands without incurring service charges or brokerage fees. In addition to the option of reinvesting their distributions to receive new units at 95% of average market price, the Plan offers unitholders the unique alternative of receiving up to an extra 2% distribution (U.S. resident unitholders are only eligible to participate in the option of reinvesting their distributions to receive new units at 95% of average market price).
  
  
• Eligibility for Trust units to be invested in an RRSP, RRIF or DPSP.