Heavy oil and oilsands industry watchers often talk about how this sector’s story is not millennial, and that innovators and builders were advancing it forward well before the early 2000s, when those outside their circles took notice. Many of the architects of the industry have also always known that in order for it, and by extension Canada’s place on the energy stage, to reachits full potential, its tentacles would need to stretch far beyond the borders of North America.