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IC Write Up : 21st Apr 2006 IC Write Up

Last Major News : 18th Apr 2006 Coal Bed Methane Project

Prelims : 27th Apr 2006 Prelim Results Link

Latest Broker Forecasts : Oriel 7th April 2006 BUY

Prelim Results and Further Updates due around 25th to 27th April 06

ABOUT FORTUNE OIL

For over a decade Fortune Oil PLC has focused on investments and operations in oil & gas infrastructure projects in China and remains one of the few overseas companies operating oil terminals and supplying natural gas in China, all in partnership with the countrys largest oil & gas companies
Fortune Oil PLC is incorporated in England and Wales and is subject to UK Listing Rules and compliance regulations. The largest shareholders are First Level Holdings Limited, Vitol and major Chinese state-owned corporations.

NATURAL GAS :




China will be the world's largest growth market for natural gas as supplies of this clean and economically attractive fuel become more accessible. Fortune Oil's investments in natural gas are principally through Fu Hua, a joint venture with a PetroChina affiliate, which on-sells gas from the pipelines supplying Beijing. In north China Fortune Oil controls and operates distribution pipelines and city gas reticulation systems as well as facilities to produce and transport Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).
Fortune Oil is now one of the leading providers of CNG in Beijing, providing clean fuel for buses, households and factories. In October 2004 Fortune Oil also became the first overseas company to supply LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) to users in China, delivering LNG by road to the ancient city of Qufu, the home of Chinese philosophy.

OIL TERMINALS :
Maoming SPM

Fortune Oil established the Maoming Single Point Mooring (SPM) in December 1994 to supply crude oil to Sinopecs Maoming refinery, the largest in southern China. The SPM now delivers 10% of Chinas crude oil imports. It allows VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers) of up to 280,000 tonnes to moor and deliver crude oil via a 15 km sub-sea pipeline. The SPM is owned and operated by a joint venture company, Maoming King Ming Petroleum Company Limited, and the other main shareholder is Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical Corporation.
The SPM buoy is commonly used throughout the world for loading and unloading liquids but the Maoming SPM remains the only buoy system in China used for importing crude oil. Fortune Oil believes that the SPM concept is a cost-effective solution for importing crude oil into China as many ports are shallow and will become more congested as demand increases. The only alternative to a buoy system in many ports is to dredge channels for large tankers. The SPM has provided significant cost savings to the Maoming refinery through its low operating costs and VLCC capability.

Products Terminals

The oil products market in China is in the process of deregulation and this will allow a larger role for foreign companies in the import and distribution of refined products. Fortune Oil remains one of the few foreign companies with interests in products terminals.
Fortune Oil and Vitol jointly developed the West Zhuhai Oil Products Terminal at the western entrance of the Pearl River Delta. These facilities came on stream in 1998 and comprise 240,000 cubic metres storage and jetties for receiving and distributing refined products. It is one of the few products terminals in south China able to handle 80,000 dwt ocean-going tankers. A controlling stake was sold to PetroChina which uses the terminal for supply of diesel to south China.
In addition Fortune Oil controls a LPG terminal and supply business (Fu Duo), which has 80,000 customers in Zhanjiang city, and owns storage facilities in Shantou. Prior to the restructuring of the China oil industry in the late 1990s, Fortune Oil was also a major participant in the gasoline retail market and in oil trading. We continue to operate two gasoline stations in Beijing but our trading activities are limited to low-risk domestic trading.

Blue Sky Aviation Oil

The South China Bluesky Aviation Oil Company owns and operates the refuelling infrastructure at 15 airports in south China. These include Wuhan, Guilin and the new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. Fortune Oil and BP each hold 24.5% of the joint venture and Beijing-based China Aviation Oil Supply Corporation (CAOSC) holds 51%. The consumption of jet fuel in China is rising significantly, particularly at Guangzhou because of pent-up demand in the Pearl River Delta.
The new Guangzhou airport was opened in August 2004. The construction cost was US$2.3 billion and it is almost four times the size of the old airport in downtown Guangzhou. The new airport is capable of handling 25 million passengers and 1 million tonnes of cargo per year and ranks number three for aviation fuel sales in mainland China.

『 Natural Gas Prices to Be Hiked 』 [2013-3-26]

China will likely increase natural gas prices sharply in April as part of the pricing reform, China Business Time reported. It is expected that the retail prices in Shanghai and Beijing might rise to ¥2.5 and ¥2.25 per cubic meter, up 32.8% and 40% respectively from existing prices. Analysts say natural gas prices are set to see big increases in China but it is not sure if this will happen in April.

Its going to be a long way back for FTO from the recent fall off in sp after L&G sale...
Lots of big sells again today which is meaningful statement in itself...
I think it looks like investors think that the holding L&G are left with are now over hanging the market and therefor not going north any time soon..
70 million over hang is a big over hang...

"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" :-)

post 1147 - abandon all hope, ye who enter?

Well not quite yet!!!!
Forever the hope...:)

"abandon hope all ye who enter here" - Dante's Divine Comedy :-)

『 China's Feb aviation traffic rises 9.5% on year to 4.86 billion mt-km 』 [2013-3-26]

China's total aviation traffic rose 9.5% year on year in February to 4.86 billion mt-km, according to data from the Civil Aviation Administration of China released Friday.

CWMAM
I agree with the good news on the China front, with regard to gas price increases and aviation increases....
And normally I would see them as a back up to my investment....but alas the sp is the main concern here.

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Re: FTO Shareholders


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you will not get an announcement from the company yet awhile, as the "transaction" is only
just completed. As regards how many shares fto has in China Gas. they have a website
and company reports, which will tell you re the holdings, who are the main shareholders and
their percentages. talks between the connected parties of fto will be having talks re their
strategies, which by their very nature are confidential and private until policies have been
agreed. i am sure at this stage they will not be briefing shareholders. that leaves you with
two options, either 1 sell or two be patient. bearing in mind the changes in the political
hierarchy of the prc in the immediate past, i am sure that connected parties opinions are
being sought. with sinopiec also wishing to have a reasonable holding in china gas thej
decisions to be taken will be substantial. fto is a relatively minor player at the top table and
any comments by the board would not be taken by others as acceptable.
chinese politics, business, connections and diplomacy are different to the uk's
different attitude. fto as a uk company has to play the game, the Chinese way or not play
at all. imho. gla s.i

chinese politics, business, connections and diplomacy are different to the uk's different attitude ...... you forgot the word "ethics", though there probably isn't a chinese word for that, especially if dealing with gweilos


PS you can't be different to; only different from or similar to

Thanks for explanation cynic.

pleasure - marginally pedantic i grant you in this age of fast-changing language usage, but then i still use apostrophes and spell in the english way rather than the pervasive and insidious american manner :-)

another pet hate is the loss of adverbs for adjectives - e.g. "I did good"
at least in written english it is still not acceptable to write, "I would of done that" or, "You get off of the bus at the station"

Have a good weekend cynic

shall do m8 ...... golf in the cold + some decent cooking and eating + wine

i'm afraid even i succumb to modern idiom on occasion :-)

Sounds good to me,enjoy.

From another board :Although I have sold out here in Feb, I did stumble across this in my travels. I still keep an eye on FTO with enthusiasm to jump in again. FWIW I think this story is only just getting started.

Chongqing: Chongqing Fujiang Energy Technology Company (Fujiang Engergy), a subsidiary of Fortune Oil, is going to start the operation of the first LNG filling station on the Yangtze River in August this year.
http://sinoshipnews.com/news_content.php?fid=3w3c1168
Good luck to one and all.

so what? .... that's almost like comparing the price of bananas with crude prices ..... do you know anything at all about LNG?

The past year has been a tough one for the Chinese economy, and yet it has come through it in a manner to make most in the West envious. For 2013, the consensus is that the Chinese economy will perform in the 7.5 to 8.5% growth area. Nevertheless, the new leadership will have much to do.

Citi Bank reckons both GDP and manufacturing will be firm in 2013. The US bank’s concerns are on the brittle nature of real estate and the local banks, which is likely to see less loans being issued. Citi reckons the appreciation of the RMB will lessen in 2013.

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) believes the adjustment in real estate market will lead to investment declining. CASS sees GDP growth in 2013 of 8.2% in the world’s most populous nation.

The Asian Development Bank, meanwhile, thinks the growth of the Chinese economy in 2013 will be lower than earlier expected, but the financial stimulus packages of central and local governments will help the nation to a stable year.

HSBC Bank chief economist Stephen King sees China's GDP growing 8.6% in 2013

puff, puff, puff ..... the growth of the Chinese economy in 2013 will be lower than earlier expected

The gas sector in the Chinese economy will continue to grow regardless, as more people are connected to the grid. The local economy will grow quicker as local people improve there standard of living. That is a fact that has been repeated around the globe in the last 50 years. The local economy has expanded rapidly due to overseas investment in cheap local labor..

Chinese people are strong savers at this point in time.Not too long a go they were starving to death in the countryside under the so called "culture revolution" So they are right to be cautious about spending but it is changing. They like to be warm when it is cold outside. So spending in the local economy is set to rise after years of export driven rises cynic... Their domestic economy is in transition to taking the strain from exports.. they are getting a bit more confident....

None of which is feeding into FTO at the moment...:)