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Dragon Oil - 3D survey to unlock exploration potential

September 2004

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With the oil price arrowing inexorably towards US$50 a barrel investors are piling into virtually every second or third line oil stock as if they're going out of fashion. One of the more improbable examples, in view of the fact that it almost went bust in the dog days of the late 90s, is Dragon Oil, which owns two producing fields offshore Turkmenistan, in the Caspian Sea.   The shares have accelerated sharply through the gears from a low of 10p last year as Dragon has enjoyed two fantastic years, culminating in a near doubling of post tax profit in 2003 to nearly US$29m, while its proven and probable reserves have ballooned to 356m barrels.   Not surprisingly, we found chairman and chief executive, Hussain Sultan, infi ...

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