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Enquest

June 2017

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  • Epic Code:
  • ENQ
  • Price:
  • 37.75p
North Sea oil & gas producer Enquest is nicely trading its way out of difficulties caused by low oil prices with final results showing virtually unchanged EBITDA of US$477m (2015: US$474m) even though average realised prices excluding hedging were just US$44.3 / barrel (2015: US$50.9). That reflected successful hedging, which increased average prices to US$63.8 / barrel, 9% higher average production to 39,751 barrels per day and unit operating costs that fell from US$29.7 / barrel to US$24.6.With cash capital expenditure clipped from US$751m to US$610, net debt rose by US$248m to US$1.8bn even though it made significant investment to bring its Kraken field closer to first oil, which should now be Q2 ’17. Helped by its res ...

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