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Premier Oil - Oil recovery allows increased hedging

July 2016

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Having endured a torrid period the shares have recovered to 78.5p as Premier has ticked two of the three conditions we felt were required for recovery; completion of the E.On acquisition (discussions remain ongoing to secure a financial covenant waiver) and first oil at Solan. An added bonus is the recovery in oil prices to around US$50 / barrel, mainly due to supply disruption in Canada and Nigeria.Its latest trading update on 11 May notes it has started exploiting this and has now hedged 5.53m barrels oil (including 0.77m from E.ON) at US$67 / barrel for this year and 1.5m barrels at almost US$46 / barrel for 2017. As a result, it should make decent profits as its costs are tracking 10-20% under budget year-to-date and costs are ...

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