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Sterling Energy

August 2005

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Although final results from Sterling Energy donï¿½t fully reflect the positive transformation that its chief executive, Harry Wilson, has engineered, they are still good nonetheless. For the year ended 31 December, revenue more than doubled to ï¿½11.5m, with pretax profit up 130% to ï¿½4.2m, while net proven and probable reserves increased to over 21.6m barrels equivalent (boe). Sterlingï¿½s strategy is to use the growing cashflows from its low risk shallow gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico to fund its high impact exploration assets in West Africa and both sides have made good progress. In Mexico, Sterlingï¿½s development and work-over program doubled average production to 10.5 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) and this is expect ...

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