Today`s Pescod Letter
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Dec 07, 2011 05:46PM
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CGX ENERGY (V-OYL) $1.10 -0.01 TAG OIL (T-TAO) $6.25 +0.18 Yesterday we took a trip down the road to Calgary to meet up with John Clarke , the VP of CGX Energy and a bunch of other oil and gassy kind of guys to find out what’s going on with Clarke, formerly one of this country’s top-ranked oil and gas analysts for two years running. These days his role with CGX Energy means that he is traveling the world almost constantly for conferences and the like so needless to say, we would expect him to come up with some interesting stories to be following in the oil and gas patch. First onto CGX Energy. Clarke and just about everyone else is pondering the news from Inpex about how they spend over $100 million and yet don’t say anything about the results of their well offshore Suriname. Needless to say the rumors are everything from not much to a heck of a hole, but most people seem to be concentrating their thoughts on Inpex’s deal with the Surinamese and if they want or need an extension on their lease and maybe there’s just a whole bunch of dickering going on between Inpex and the Surinamese government. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that CGX, after a 13/14 year wait, will be spudding their Jaguar play any day, any hour, and we will finally find out whether tiny CGX Energy has a chunk of a billion barrel play...or not...after this huge long wait. Clarke is also on the board of directors of another high risk/high reward play which we will call a ‘lottery ticket’ kind of like CGX and that’s Shoal Point Energy. As we mentioned, that’s probably worth following now too. But we ask Clarke to turn on his crystal ball and find some plays that we should be watching at this time. He is a kind of fan of Antrim Energy (AEN) in the North Sea because of their recent discoveries and he thinks it has some traveling to do if and when the markets ever get a little more generous. TAG Oil (TAO), he suggests looks like the oil shale could work plus given their other operations, giving this stock a firm base. One stock that I’m sure you haven’t heard of is Cove , which trades on the AIM market for their massive, possibly 30 TCF discovery on the East Coast of Africa in Mozambique. Tiny Cove only has about a 10% to 20% interest in the play and needless to say, plays like this take a long time to develop, but it is one he suggests is worth watching.