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Venture Production - Lowball production target should be thrashed

March 2006

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Shares in Venture Production surged to a new high of 635p following a confident trading update which disclosed that average production for 2005 was 29,864 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), but crucially its average production in December had soared to over 50,000 boepd. Since then, Venture has released production guidance for 2006 of 40,000-42,000 boepd which, in our opinion, is a deliberate lowball figure designed to virtually guarantee that it will beat its own targets. This guidance was released as part of a very comprehensive presentation to analysts, copies of which can be downloaded from its website (www.vpc.co.uk). The highlight is Venture’s bold aim to broadly double in size by 2008/9 and it believes it cou ...

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