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Tullow Oil

September 2018

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  • Epic Code:
  • TLW
  • Price:
  • 226.5p
Tullow’s news flow has been mixed since our last update. First the company announced it had lost a legal dispute with contractor Seadrill and partner Kosmos Energy and will have to pay out US$248m costs. However, recent results for the six months ended June brought news of an upgrade to production guidance for this year from 82-90,000 barrels oil equivalent per day (boepd) to 86-92,000 boepd. The other good news was that a three year cost reduction program has realized US$708m savings versus a target of US$500m.Those results showed revenues rise 15% to US$905m while it made a pretax profit of US$55m versus a loss of US$348m. Free cash flow doubled to US$401m, while net debt fell to US$3.1bn, leaving un-used borrowing headroom ...

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