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Dragon Oil - 28% increase in gross production

March 2009

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Shares in Dragon Oil have gained a useful 20p since we made them a New Year Nap for 2009. Helping this momentum was a positive trading update, which noted a 28% increase in gross production with an average rate of almost 41,000 barrels per day (bopd), while it exited 2008 with output of 45,600 bopd. Dragon sold 7.5m barrels in 2008 at an average price of almost US$91 per barrel, a 6% discount to Brent. Meanwhile, year end cash was US$867m, up from US$543m last time.While investors have understandably focused on its cash pile, Dragon is in genuine growth mode. Aside from drilling new wells to achieve its aim of increasing average production by a further 15% this year, it is also upgrading its oil processing facility (doubling the c ...

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