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Dana Petroleum - Poised to drill high impact Faucon well

November 2005

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  • Epic Code:
  • DNX
  • Price:
  • 828p
The benefits of being virtually un-hedged helped Dana achieve an impressive set of interim results, with turnover increasing 47% to £71.6m, operating profit doubling to £40m and earnings jumping 140% to 30.5p.  Average production increased 5% to 18,796 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd). The only disappointing note was that Dana will now miss its target of ending the year with 22,000-24,000 boepd because of longer than expected maintenance related downtime and new fields coming on stream later than expected. Nevertheless, Dana still believes it is on target to reach 40,000 boepd by the end of 2007, which would be a major achievement. Later this year, there is also potential excitement from two more exploration wel ...

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