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Valiant Petroleum - Fast growing North Sea oil producer on soon-to-be prospective PE of 3.6

April 2011

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • VPP
  • Price:
  • 619p
Until recently the perceived wisdom was that the boom in North Sea oil production was over, with all the easy fields now emptied and the costs of accessing the more challenging ones too prohibitive. However, with events in the Middle East quite possibly forcing prices back up towards US$140 / barrel, there is likely to be a positive shift in the economics of extracting those smaller, geologically fiddly fields that Big Oil does not want. One company successfully exploiting this is TMI Portfolio constituent Enquest (ENQ; 151p), which has been well-received following its spin-out from oil services firm Petrofac. Another company that is arguably higher risk but potentially much higher rewarding is AIM-listed Valiant Petroleum, one of ...

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