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Secondary Recommendation

Falkland Oil & Gas - New oil prospector in Faulklands

November 2004

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A tell tale sign that we are entering the latter stages of this great oil bull run is the switch in investor interest to highly speculative early stage ventures, which have a lump of cash, fantastic dreams and little else. Falkland Oil and Gas (market cap:£46m), a recent spin-out from Falkland Island Holdings, 520p, fits this description to a tee.  After floating on AIM at 40p on 14 October,its shares surged to a 20% opening day premium, with the open offer element being 3.5 times oversubscribed. It raised a total of £11m afterexpenses, but clearly could have raised a lot more, with investors mesmerised at its estimates for possible oil generation of up to 1000 billion barrels oil. The principal assets of Falkland O ...

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