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Dana Petroleum - Asset swap boosts revenues by £25m

November 2004

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  • DNX
The shares surged to an all-time high of 465p at one point, making for a gain of 80% since our main recommendation in June. This followed news of some canny asset swaps. For the six months ended 30 June, pretax profit rose 37% to £18.9m on turnover up 32% to £49m with Dana benefiting from light oil price hedging. A higher tax charge meant thatearnings fell from 14.6p to 12.3p. Operating cashflow rose 39% to £25.3m, which helped transform the balance sheet from net debt of £41.3m to net cash of £1.3m.   These excellent results came courtesy of Dana achieving record average production of 17,895 barrels per day (bopd), a rise of 11%. The vast majority came from Dana's eight producing fields in the North Sea w ...

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