Secondary Recommendation

Cairn Energy - Eye on future drilling

May 2016

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Alongside Tullow Oil, Cairn Energy belongs to a select club of quoted oil & gas e&p firms, which have been transformed from a small cap acorn to a FTSE-100 oak on account of a huge discovery. Tullow has arguably found four “company making” assets while Cairn’s most recent discovery in Senegal (causing a furious share spike in its wake) could mark its second.Founded in 1981 Cairn initially eked out a respectable living drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea and offshore Bangladesh but the seeds for its future success were sown when it executed an asset swap with Shell, which brought in interests onshore in Rajasthan in North West India. After two unsuccessful wells Shell sold its remaining 50% in ...

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