As I mentioned before, a lot of the technologies involved there are complex, so we need to be able to leverage some of the expertise and the monies to carry on some of those demos. To give you an example, a large scale demo in the oil and gas sector can range very quickly between $50 million and $125 million a pop. To the extent possible, when we can do those large-scale demos, for instance jointly with the U.S., Mexico, or other leading nations, it's a chance for us to lower the risk and to be able to pursue more of those technologies and bring them to the marketplace.
I have to say that perhaps thanks to the Paris discussions that took place during the past months, there's a sense of celerity and understanding of the need collectively to accelerate the pace of those efforts. It's not just true in North America, but also true in Asia and Europe. The willingness to collaborate is stronger than ever. Since the December discussions, we've seen a lot of interest being shown by our partner countries, who want to team up with Canada and our firms to do more of that research. I'm fairly hopeful as the months and years go by that we'll be able to forge more of those cross-border research calibrations and be able to advance more rapidly through the innovation spectrum with some of those technologies.