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Cairn Energy

June 2020

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  • Epic Code:
  • CNE
  • Price:
  • 113p
Cairn Energy is one of the few oil & gas independents to be sitting pretty at a time when oil prices are sitting on their uppers. That’s largely because it holds cash, adjusted to include the sale of its Norwegian subsidiary for US$255m, alongside an un-drawn reserves-based lending facility of US$575m.Also in its favour is that it has hedged 36% of expected average production of 21,000 barrels oil per day from its UK North Sea producing assets at the Catcher and Kraken fields during 2020 at US$62 / barrel, set against all in production costs that are somewhere below US$20 / barrel. Nevertheless, it has quickly enacted a plan to offset the oil price falls including a 23% reduction in capital expenditure (from US ...

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