Main Web Site : http://www.fortune-oil.com/

CBM Partner Web site : http://www.molopo.com.au

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.

Thanks for that shortie,have a good day.

Thanks for that shortie,have a good day.

This stock needs news and news quickly as it is starting to settle below 9p for trade..
Already 9.5p looks a distant view......

In short shortie there ant the interest there and the news which a number of rampers suggest is coming may not be what they think. Nice little company but lack of news will continue to push it down. I have been in and out of this stock since it was sub 2p. At the moment ther ant the momentum and thats why i see it dropping sub 8.

elbow, who on here is ramping this share?
I am certainly one of those who is waiting on news about the current bid regarding CGH.
I do believe this is a very large gamble taken by the bod of FTO...The stake is currently worth about £210 million which is more then the current overall market cap for FTO..
I would disagree that there are rampers here, quite the contrary. Investors who are merely hoping for the best.

All expectations appear to be fading here.... :-)

We may on the other hand recieve news obout CGH link up /takeover.
Lets be positive ,the management have done a good job this far,i must
admit the SP is a bit of a mystery.

The deadline date is 15th Oct + 7 days.
To my knowledge even at this stage there had been no response from Chinese authorities on the bid,,,how much time do they need???

We must have news in the next few days?

Two further long positions opened, December 2012 and another March 2013.

Good on you shortie,how do you do your trades?

Cityindex spreadbetting.

Thanks shortie,have a good day.

Dart energy has announced that it is carrying out early commercialisation work on its Liuling coal seam gas project in China and expects to start initial gas sales in the first half of 2013.

The company is currently working to bring two wells drilled this year into production, bringing the total number of production wells up to five. These are expected to provide enough gas to meet the requirements of an existing gas sales agreement with Shaanxi-CUCBM for up to 1.75 million ft3 per day.

Dart currently produces 500 000 ft3 of gas per day from the first three multilateral horizontal wells at the project. This production rate is increasing on a daily basis as dewatering and bottom hole pressure reduction continues.


Liulin development and gas sales

Initial gas sales from Liulin will be carried out through a compressed natural gas plant that is currently under construction and expected to be ready for commissioning in the second half of 2012.

The plant is owned and operated by Shaanxi-CUCBM while gas sold is expected to yield about US$ 7.10 per thousand ft3, or about US$ 4.1 million per annum in potential revenue net to Fortune Liulin Gas, in which Dart has a 50% stake.

Dart has already completed engineering design of a field gathering system and has an engineering procurement construction contract in place. Construction of the gathering system and associated equipment is expected to take between six to nine months and will commence immediately upon receipt of relevant approvals.

Meanwhile, the company is preparing a full field overall development plant for submission before the end of this year. This covers all of the technical work, engineering designs and environmental studies required to allow for full scale development of the field, bringing about a major increase in gas sales.


China gas demand

Chinese gas demand is expected to double over the next five years, fuelling a large part of the expected 17% increase in global demand over the same time frame. The International Energy Agency has predicted that China will emerge as the third largest gas user by 2013.

The country is expected to meet this demand through an increase in gas imports including liquefied natural gas as well as increasing domestic production, which state owned CNPC believes could hit 200 billion m3 by 2020.

Much of this is expected to be met by unconventional sources such as coal seam gas and shale gas.

http://www.energyglobal.com/sectors/drilling-and-production/articles/Chinese_coal_seam_gas_field_on_route_to_commercialisation.aspx

It has lots of positive points as I bought on my own research but as mentioned above it is a mystery why it is lower now then last year with all it has going for it..
As someone posted on another board...look at the 5 year chart...kind of says it all...
But I am well and truly in now....

I think it just gets unnerving seeing it struggle to get back above 9p.
It hasn't had a trade above 9p for over a month now...

You could also argue that Fortune Oil over past years didn't achieve any new milestones that would add to the bottom line. Deregulation of oil products is coming about as is the flow of gas in the near future. My overall investment in FTO is a very small part of my overall portfolio, if all goes to plan over the next 6 months I'll add but we need to see milestones met first. I think FTO carries a minimal risk over the potential upside.

Liulin met milestones but also slippage..
Bluesky won 5 new airport contracts... A big part of doing business in China is slippage..
The diesel conversion programme has not delivered..the carbon credit business did not even get a mention in the last annual accounts...Liulin was suppose to go commercial in July 2012..all missed there targets...not to mention the current state with the bid which the MOFCOM can not even address to another state enterprise sinopec.

This is business life in China...

This from LSE bb....
HONG KONG--Shares of China Gas Holdings Ltd. (0384.HK), a target of a takeover proposal by ENN Energy Holdings Ltd. (2688.HK) and state oil giant China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (SNP), or Sinopec, were suspended from trading Monday morning after it signed cooperation agreements for the expansion of its natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas businesses.

China Gas President Eric Leung told Dow Jones Newswires the suspension wasn't related to the takeover proposal by the two energy companies and the company will issue a statement on this matter later. However, he declined to give more details.

China Gas, which controls gas pipelines that serve more than six million customers in China, said Monday morning the suspension was due to an announcement "which is price sensitive in nature." The stock closed Friday at HK$4.30 per share.

In September, ENN Energy and Sinopec extended to today the deadline for the completion of negotiations on their $2.15 billion planned acquisition of China Gas.

The acquisition faces an uphill struggle as major shareholders of China Gas--including Fortune Oil PLC (FTO.LN), founder Liu Ming Hui and Beijing Enterprises Group Co.--have been increasing their holdings in the company since ENN Energy and Sinopec launched their takeover attempt in December.

Gaining a controlling stake in China Gas--which has a market capitalization of $2.2 billion--won't be cheap. But the jockeying for control of the company highlights the industry's view that China Gas, which has exclusive rights to operate pipelines in 151 cities across China, is worth the effort

I wonder if FTO is involved WOOPPEE fingers crossed.