10:24 AM EST - Petro-Canada : said on Tuesday it will not divest its interest in five early-stage Alberta oil sands properties that it had previously put on the block, saying bids received had not met expectations. The oil explorer and refiner said it would hold on to its stakes in the Chard, Stony Mountain, Liege, Thornbury and Ipiatik properties. The sites have an estimated bitumen resource of 1.7 billion barrels. Petro-Canada
shares T.PCA are trading down 19 cents at $46.45.
