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In an attempt to cut down the header page,i've transferred some of the older news to Page1 post No.3.

http://www.oil-price.net/index.php?lang=en
http://www.ft.com/home/uk

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http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4942625
http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4943375

It's an uncrossed trade cyril .

5% up.

Finished up 7% on the day.

Is Afren Plc A Buy Right Now?
By Royston Wild | Fool.co.uk – 10 hours ago

Afren PLC

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AFR.L 38.19 +2.26

To say that oil explorer Afren (LSE: AFR) has suffered an annus horribilis in 2014 would be something of a colossal understatement. Enduring weakness in the oil price, combined with financial improprieties in the boardroom and production reports badly missing forecasts, has severely crimped investor appetite for the firm in recent times.

As a result shares in the business have tumbled 79% during the course of the year, and bottomed out at just under 33p per share this week, the lowest for almost six years.
Drilling report reveals terrific potential

Still, shares flipped almost 10% higher yesterday following a positive drilling update at its operations in East Africa, viewed by many as a potential growth driver in future years.

Afren announced that drilling and coring work at its Block 1101 onshore project in Madagascar had completed, revealing the presence of oil resevoirs across the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous zones. The company plans to carry out further analysis of the area during the first quarter of 2015, positive results from which could thrust shares higher again
A snip at current prices

The City's army of analysts do not expect the firm's earnings improvement to offer much reason for cheer over the next year as group-wide production problems endure, however. Indeed, current forecasts indicate a 61% decline in earnings for this year to 11p per share. And an additional 29% decline is chalked in for 2015 to 7.8p per share.

Still, I believe that Afren still provides excellent value at current levels. The business changes hands on a modest P/E multiple of 3.3 times prospective earnings for 2014, some way below the benchmark of 10 times or below which marks represents stunning value. And this remains low at just 4.4 times for 2015.

Make no mistake: the revenues-crushing impact of declining oil prices is not expected to dissipate any time soon as surging US shale output and rampant production from OPEC nations swamps the market with oodles of new capacity. And with the global economy continuing to waver and US stockpiles breaking at the seams this imbalance is likely to be rectified any time soon.

But given Afren's suite of top-notch projects and relatively low earnings multiples -- by comparison oil majors BP and Royal Dutch Shell change hands on forward readouts of 9.1 times and 8.7 times correspondingly -- the business can be considered a potentially explosive stock with less risk than its sector peers.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/exxon-woos-gkp-to-gain-kurdish-base-6278531.html


Todd Kozel, believes the group could eventually go for double-figure billions. GKP is sitting on what is considered to be one of the world's great recent oil finds – Shaikan, about 50 miles north-west of Kurdistan's capital, Erbil – but the regional government is known to want a supermajor on board to properly fund and develop the field.

It is thought that the board would not accept the estimated £8-a-share that Exxon is considering and that a number of other companies, perhaps including China's Sinopec and Californian giant Chevron, are monitoring the situation. There is even some speculation that an informal four-way auction for GKP might be under way, while it is also believed that the company has spoken to at least two smaller businesses about potentially developing its assets in a joint venture.

http://www.dailyfx.com/crude-oil

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http://www.oil-price.net/index.php?lang=en

Seems that the above link is at odds with the one in the header?

$63.26 against $59.80????

hxxp://www.livecharts.co.uk/MarketCharts/crude.php

Which stock to buy for the bounce?

Intraday OIL price
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Intraday

13% up so far today.

...'Santa Raleigh' ??

City folk need to top-out their accounts to gain their Xmas bonus. Probably a lot of short closing too.

DYOR

HAb

exceptionally heavy volume too

since the marked down at the start, is now on a intraday spike like

low of 38.50p to 43.50p now

the oil price is more of a yo yo but rising

Rising way ahead of all other oilers today .

Institution order filling completed or.....'Pump & Dump' day traders taking profits?

or
A SHORTER ON THE LOOSE?
Locked the door before ( it ) can scape
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A hughe volume 28M so far



bought some OPHR at 136.30p of the oil stocks bouncing back

and now well over 40m traded!

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panic bear closing or something potentially afoot?

OIL prices on the rise

the Brent pice has been rising and then a 50% retracement and up again with another 50% retracement so far



live chart .......... http://www.livecharts.co.uk/MarketCharts/brent.php

IMO ...even with the oil $/barrel in mid $55-$60 AFR have been well oversold, due to nervous Lemmings and over-shorting taking advantage. Institution know this and the potential which AFR has in the mid-term.

Yes AFR have some management issues which makes it an obvious shorters target on weak market / oil slippage. Also Nigeria have reduced its GDP expectations and their currency have dropped. All good for AFR. Iraq / Kurds are also starting to get on together, and secure production delivery.

Also AFR management keep stating that production will ramp up in near future. If I had the Cash I would be looking at this mid-cap Oil gem as a potential Bid target. Good reserves, exploration track record and generally ok Geo-political stable countries (now).

Will surf the SP wave I think.

DYOR

HAb

Go with the flow,great week for those that did.
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From above by Bill Conerly

Development is the process of sinking more wells in a field that has already been proven by exploratory drilling. Development also includes building the local pipelines and terminals required to get the oil to a transportation facility. Development expenses are often worthwhile even at lower prices. For example, suppose that the all-in cost of oil from a brand new field is $80, of which $30 per barrel constitutes exploration. That means that development and production only costs $50 a barrel extra. If the exploration costs have already been paid, then companies will continue with development even at today’s $60 price.

Production is even cheaper. Traditionally, production costs were very small compared to exploration and development, but wells that are fracked have higher production costs that old-fashioned wells. Nonetheless, once the exploration and development have been paid for, it almost always makes sense to keep the wells pumping.