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Venture Production

November 2005

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Several one-off accounting items, such as low priced hedging contracts and adverse foreign exchange movements, conspired to push Venture Production into a headline pretax loss of £5.9m for the first six months ending 30 June. However, the true picture is much better than this, with most of those hedging contracts unwinding shortly while underlying operating profit more than doubled from £9.1m to £20.1m. Operating cashflow was a lowish £3.9m, but this mainly reflects one-off working capital movements and although Venture’s capex program has pushed up net debt to £145m, this is comfortably below debt capacity of £325m. During the period, average oil and gas production increased 35% to 24,255 ...

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