Right I havent beleived in investing directly in an oil company untill today and in the last few months have been investing in OIL SERVICE companys Hamworthy and Corac, you know the picks and shovels tale.

Anyway after doing a lot of research I really feel that SOCO INTERNATIONAL SIA as been left behind in the mass bull market on oil companies.

Forget, Burren, Regal, Dana and the rest in my opinion this is the one to be on.

So.....why buy Soco now?

Four inter-related reasons:

1) Newsflow is now very much in sight on several fronts. None of it has yet emerged though, so analysts have yet to revisit their old views and recommendations. There was, and indeed remains, a chance to get in before serious interest picks up again.

2) There is, IMO, a decent chance of some very large price rises within the next 6 months, accompanied by increased downside protection. Once newsflow starts, the shares will come back onto institutional radar screens - you can wait for it to emerge, or you can speculate now at what I think will prove to be a lower price -perhaps much lower!

3) The market thinks there is nothing happening and has gone to sleep on the prospects. You can see this in the broadly sideways drift and very low volumes on most days [until this week]. They are wrong. Yemen and perhaps Mongolia should provide some near-term good news.

4) The time to buy is when no-one else seems very interested.

And heres the last results from the company......................

Soco International PLC
02 September 2004

SOCO International plc

Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2004

SOCO is an international oil and gas exploration and production company,
headquartered in London. The Company has interests in Vietnam, Mongolia, Yemen,
Libya, Tunisia and Thailand, with production operations in Yemen, Tunisia and
Mongolia. SOCO today announces interim results for the half year ended 30 June
2004.

HIGHLIGHTS

Operating profit of 4.1 million (2003: 4.2 million)

Net profit of 2.0 million (2003: 2.5 million)

Earnings per share of 2.9p (2003: 3.6p)

Cash balance of 26.7 million at half year end

Finalised the sale of an interest in ODEX creating a consortium of SOCO
(34%), Oilinvest (46%) and Gazprombank (20%) in the special purpose
entity to progress initiatives in Libya and other countries

Continued reinterpretation of existing 3D seismic and acquisition of 650
sq km of new 3D seismic in Vietnam prior to commencement of drilling in
Q1 2005

3D seismic programme completed in Mongolia with two wells drilled, both
apparent discoveries, and a third well spudded

First ever deviated Basement well drilling in East Shabwa in Yemen



Ed Story, President and Chief Executive of SOCO, said:

'Following an extended period of quiet preparation, the release of interim
results coincides with the commencement of a very active drilling programme for
SOCO, one that I believe has company transforming potential'

2 September 2004

ENQUIRIES:
SOCO International plc Tel: 020 7457 2020 (today)ENDS.

This could really be a craking stock and is worth getting in at these lowly price figures.

Please DYOR

cheers GF.

Some heavy volume today aswell.

cheers GF.

www.upstreamonline.com 6th Sep 04
Mongolia oil shows for Soco
UK independent Soco International has made two apparent oil discoveries at its producing onshore assets in the harsh environment of Tamtsag basin in Mongolia.

Independent 8th May 04
SOCO INTERNATIONAL (talk it will soon unveil a deal which will unlock some of the value behind its Libya assets)

Sunday Telegraph 7th March 04
SOCO INTERNATIONAL buy

Yahoo Finance
SOCO International plc Company Profile
SOCO International is not a so-so oil and gas company. The independent oil and gas exploration and production concern operates in a number of high-risk oil patches in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, including Libya, Mongolia, Thailand, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Yemen. SOCO International has proved and probable reserves of 72.5 million barrels of oil equivalent.

http://www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk/sol88511.htm

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-2-4/19371.html

Mongolian Oil Could Help China's Energy Woes
Company hopes for pipeline into northern China

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Radio Free Asia

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Feb 04, 2004

A Mongolian oilfield first discovered in the early 1990s has proven far more promising than originally believed, prompting calls for a pipeline linking it to northern China, RFAs Mandarin service reports.
The UK-based Soco International oil company said it had drilled four exploration wells in the Zuunbayan field, at the northeastern tip of Mongolia, during 2003. It said it had found significant reserves of a higher quality and greater predictability than was previously known in the area.

"We've discovered oil in a much better reservoir, at a shallower depth than the previous wells and one which we think we'll be able to predict with much greater certainty where to drill in the future," Soco International's president and chief executive Ed Story said in an interview.

"The key in what we've been about is to get enough quantity, proven reserves, to then go forward to build a pipeline so you can move larger quantities to sell to China," Story said, adding that Soco and its Chinese and Vietnamese partners had long had an eye on the China market.

China is facing skyrocketing oil bills as a result of strong economic growth, overtaking Japan in 2003 to become the world's second-largest oil importer. So far, its attempts to negotiate pipeline deals with major producers like Russia and Kazakhstan have not yielded fruit.

Wang Baoji, a Chinese representative at the project for the Huabei Petroleum Management Bureau, agreed that the oilfield was a significant find. "We've been cooperating with Soco since 1989," he told RFA. "As for production, it's been coming onstream fairly fast now. It's not bad... particularly Area 19 [in the Tamtsag Basin area]." He said the project had also promoted cooperation between China and Mongolia.

Huabei currently holds a 10 percent stake in the venture, with PetroVietnam holding 5 percent, and Soco 85 percent. The oilfield currently exports around 500 barrels daily by truck to China.

Story said Soco had chosen to work with Huabeiwhich provides drilling servicespartly because of their previous experience drilling in a similar deposit in China, and partly for economic reasons.

"We use Chinese rigs and Chinese personnel who've come over actually from the Huabei area, and that's the key, so we've got the costs down," he said, adding that Soco was probably the first oil company even to use Chinese drilling rigs outside China.

Those savings meant that Soco could afford to drill more wells in any given year, with a potential to export as much as 10,000 barrels per day if a pipeline were built. He said that now that the potential of the Mongolian oilfield was known, a pipeline would stand a good chance of attracting development funding.

"From the standpoint of China... it would be the closest source of additional oil reserves, although not on the scale of those in Russia, but certainly it could become significant, it could be very secure, and really support a trading relationship between China and Mongolia," Story said.

China's oil imports soared far above official forecasts last year, prompting concerns that the energy deficit could damage the country's economy. Crude oil imports rose by 31 percent in 2003 to more than 91 million tons, compared with the previous year. And the overall bill for foreign oil rose by 55 percent year-on-year to almost U.S.$20 billion.

Yes and only a few days ago there was a mention on the main news about how China was running out of oil.

cheers GF.

Some more top drawer research apple, well done. Theres far more upside to this one so dont think you have missed out.

Get on board now.

cheers GF.

Drifted back a little today but nothing goes up in a straight line. Far more to come.

cheers GF.

Tony, I really feel this one is the one to be in.

Please take a look at the previous research which is excelent coming mostly from apple.

cheers GF.

Hoping we are in for a good week.

cheers GF.

All buying so far today.

Buying way ahead of selling, should be an up day tuesday, fingers crossed.

cheers GF.

Hot off the press....................nb, Soco as a partnership link with Gazprom.

Tuesday, October 5, 2004. Page 6.

Gazprom Eyes LNG Ports in U.S.

By Eduard Gismatullin
Bloomberg Gazprom plans to lease or buy stakes in liquefied natural gas terminals in the United States and possibly Canada, where the company plans to start supplying the fuel.

Gazprom plans to secure medium-term contracts between 2006 and 2009 to supply liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to the United States. The company plans to partner with North American companies to ensure access to regasification plants that will turn LNG into gas to pump it through pipelines.

Gazprom is in talks with ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips, the three largest U.S. oil producers, and Petro-Canada, Canada's third-biggest oil company, about gas production in Russia and LNG supplies to the United States and Canada. The gas company plans to invest $10 billion to develop the Shtokman field in the Barents Sea to pump the fuel.

Existing regasification plants in the United States "meet the market demand now," Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller told reporters on Saturday in Yamburg, in the Russian Arctic. "But if we talk about foreseen demand by 2010, their capacity won't be enough."

The United States, which expects gas demand to grow 50 percent in the next 20 years, has been urging Gazprom to accelerate plans to build an LNG terminal in northwestern Russia that could supply the fuel to the United States. At the same time, Gazprom is looking for new markets outside Europe.


Gazprom plans to supply between 3 billion and 5 billion cubic meters of gas to the United States as early as next year by swapping its fuel in Europe for LNG shipments to North America.

Gazprom, which supplies a quarter of gas consumed in Europe, expects to start pumping gas from the Shtokman field in the Arctic in 2010 to make LNG available for direct sales in North America. The offshore field has enough reserves to supply the United States for about four years.

Royal Dutch/Shell Group and U.S. Sempra Energy last week received permits from Mexico for construction of a $600 million LNG regasification terminal to process gas from Russia for sale locally and in California.

Shell leads a group of investors, which plans to invest at least $10 billion to tap offshore fields in Russia's Pacific to produce LNG. Gazprom's Miller said in June that the company plans to secure a stake in the Shell-led Sakhalin-2 project.

Gazprom is seeking oil and gas exploration projects in Libya in response to the recent lifting of economic sanctions against the North African country.

Miller last week met Abdulla el-Badri, chairman of Libya's state-owned National Oil Corp., to discuss possible joint projects. Gazprombank, majority owned by Gazprom, already owns 20 percent of a Libyan exploration project, Miller said.

"Now that the sanctions against Libya are ended, a lot of companies are interested in the Libyan market and possibilities to produce oil and gas," Miller told reporters. "The business environment is stable in the oil and gas industry."

cheers GF.

Buys up above sells for the second day running, could move up.

cheers Gf.

Does anyone else have a view on these. Had a good day yesterday so plenty of wedge in the pocket but where do I put it?

MS

mickey if you have money in need of a home, look at the Petrel Resources and Petroceltic International threads.

Might be a good idea Mickey, but keep looking over your back and get a supply of valium in. Petrel certainly as a massive speculative following. The guys who were on As Seen On Screen are now riding on this one, but when will they jump off, and will you be around when the price drops?.

All depends on your investing style.

cheers GF.

Personally, I would not touch Petrel with a barch pole. I have been in SIA since March 1999 when the price was bombed out and it is by far my largest single holding. I am also heavily invested in Hardman ,Oilexco and Victoria Oil and Gas. I hold a fairly large position in PCI. I hold small positions in Aminex and Black Rock.
I would urge you to be very cautious with Petrel.

All the best

Cannyinvestor

Thanks boys advice taken. Perhaps I'll go back to the boring old crab FT100.
The AIM is much more fun though. Still it hit 4700 today.

What ever your in good luck

MS

Three days now buys bigger than sells, at some time it as to crack.

cheers GF.

Up 10p so far, and looking good with all oil companies.

Just wait while we get news flow through and I am led to beleive there is going to be an awful lot of it.

cheers GF.

Buyers coming back in after a fall in price over lunch time. Now back up again.

cheers GF.