Secondary Recommendation

Dana Petroleum - Makes biggest acquisition to date

July 2010

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.

Investing in oil firms can be hit or miss affairs, given that wells are costly to drill and have no guarantee of success. However, there are occasions where minnows can graduate into the big league and Dana Petroleum, a FTSE-250 firm with a market value of just under Â£1.05bn, is one. Under the leadership of the chief executive and founder, Tom Cross, Dana has pursued a strategy of asset trading and growing production organically by drilling programmes and the result has been very lucrative with the shares increasing from 200p in April 2003 to a high of 1972p in May â€˜08, before the recent pull-back to 1131p. After initially pursuing opportunities in Western Siberia, Dana took advantage of weak energy prices prevalent in th ...

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Dana Petroleum (August 2010)

Dana Petroleum - Ambitious Â£210m capital investment programme (June 2010)

Dana Petroleum - Strong portfolio of exploration and production assets (September 2009)

Dana Petroleum - Poised for strong production growth (June 2009)

Dana Petroleum - Acquires Bow Valley (April 2009)

Dana Petroleum - Wide range of eps forecasts (October 2008)

Dana Petroleum - Oil & gas stalwart poised to deliver huge profit growth (August 2008)

Dana Petroleum - New discoveries propel Dana towards FTSE-100 (June 2008)

Dana Petroleum - Our pick in the oil sector (August 2007)

Dana Petroleum (January 2007)

Dana Petroleum - Production soars towards 31,000 boepd (November 2006)

Dana Petroleum - Makes two North Sea discoveries (October 2006)

Dana Petroleum - Surge in production as Goosander field comes on stream (September 2006)

Dana Petroleum - Oversold markets provide excellent entry price (July 2006)

Dana Petroleum (May 2006)

Dana Petroleum - Production spikes up to 28,000 boepd (March 2006)

Dana Petroleum - Faucon 1 well not commercial (February 2006)

Dana Petroleum - Faucon-1 well strikes oil (January 2006)

Dana Petroleum (December 2005)

Dana Petroleum - Poised to drill high impact Faucon well (November 2005)

Dana Petroleum - Major beneficiary of oil price surge (September 2005)

Dana Petroleum - ABN Amro issues new note (June 2005)

Dana Petroleum - Oil production set to hit 30,000 barrels a day next year (May 2005)

Dana Petroleum - Asset swaps set up surge in production (January 2005)

Dana Petroleum - Asset swap boosts revenues by Â£25m (November 2004)

Dana Petroleum - Newsflow drives shares to new high (September 2004)

Dana Petroleum - 300m barrel exploration prospects in Mauritania (June 2004)

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