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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.

Thank you gyus for comments.
I still cannot figure out which one choose. Their description is so confusing to me!

I have fto shares in ISA and I should vote by tomorrow, I think.

If you were me, which one you would choose, Default option (CVR), or Loan Note?

I think I read somewhere in the FTO Scheme doc for an ISA or SIPP the loan note option is not available. In any case aren't loan notes just a fudge to defer capital gains into another year in which case it would be pointless for an ISA.
Full documentation is on the FTO site under Reports.

cvr is valueless. Read the document. The criteria to be fulfilled is not possible. The market values the deal at only 10p....hence the price just below.

deja vu

I believe some form of class action is now been considered by a minority of shareholders..or so I red from other boards....17% voted against the offer

Hi
Both CVR (default) and Lone note are available on ISA.

Rutherby,
Can you give me any link so I can join those shareholders who are considering class action?

There has been an email account set up to communicate in private..It is..... The email address is fo@minorityaction.co.uk
Up to 17% voted against the offer in the scheme and the next steps are been considered prior to the next court date in early March...

Yesterday...someone bought 400,000 shares @ 10.75p per share....seems strange for a cash deal worth only 10p per share?????
The cvr's really are worthless....the question is why would someone invest on that bases???
Back in to the courts next week...we will know more....

Temporary suspension.....

Permanent if you're a shareholder. Just the payout to come then bye bye to

It may be temporary pending an announcement.....is what the rns states...
The court hearing is today and the judge relays his/her verdict on the scheme. I expect that is the pending announcement... But the suspension I would imagine, would be listed again....

Last day of dealing 3rd march, cancellation of listing 9th march. Unless the Court Hearing fails to sanction the scheme - oh look a Gloucester Old Spot overhead :-)

Latest rns...just released...court sanctions scheme.....:-)

They gave us 10p, and CGH is above 13.
Is it likely to get the rest 5p?

No!
The document says it is highly unlikely. A class action is currently in process against the cvr element of the offer..