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The Pay Zone: Oil price, Sundry results-Caza-Borders & Southern-RockRose Energy- And finally...

Published: 10:45 31 Mar 2016 BST

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Oil price
Its the last day of the quarter and with expiry and some window dressing this is not the day for traders to get brave all of a sudden. With WTI up 4c and Brent up 12, it was natural gas that took the riband climbing to $2 for the first time for many months. I would expect today to be modestly weaker on the physical front as barring any special situations orders will be minimal, investors who are still surprisingly long crude oil may take the opportunity to close one or two positions.
Yesterday the EIA stats showed another build, admittedly 2.3m barrels was below the 2.8m forecast but stocks remain at their peaks and little can be done to change that yet. Refiners are trying hard, utilisation is now 90.4%, an eleven year high but April can be an unforgiving month, nevertheless gasoline demand is strong. The gasoline draw of 2.5m barrels proved that but stocks are still relatively high. Finally, the Reuters survey of Opec production came out and showed that in March output was up by 100/- b/d on February primarily down to the expected increase in Iranian exports.
Sundry results
Today is also the deadline for a number of companies to submit their results and several have sneaked in under the wire.
Borders & Southern have posted a net loss of $2.6m and cash of $14m but the key here is the farm-out process which is ‘being impacted by the low oil price environment’. A resource upgrade for Darwin is tucked away in the numbers as well.
Caza finals are irrelevant as the company was financially restructured around the year end and Talara controls 95.3% of the equity. With revenue and production down the loss is as expected but 1P and 2P are up, again no surprise but the oil price collapse took its toll on Caza. Readers regularly remind me that I was too bullish on the company and fair enough, but the portfolio is exceptionally well put together in some of the most sought after post codes in the US and to be honest I think that it could still fly.
RockRose Energy has its maiden figures today having arrived on the market in January when it raised £4.4m. CEO Andrew Austin is well known to many in the industry and he is targeting onshore and offshore production, power generation and infrastructure deals.
Nothing to do with results but I was interested to see that the Weatherford placing closed well oversubscribed, the company issued 115m shares at $5.65 which was 20m more than they first offered. Some investors must think that we are somewhere close to the bottom….
Finally a mention to all those in the Office of the Director of Mineral Resources in the Falkland Islands Government who are all blog readers and helped with the recent analysis of the situation re the UN.
And finally…
The England T20 machine powers on with yesterdays victory in the semi-final against New Zealand, many peoples favourites. In Sundays final against India or the Windies and on genuine high quality, no holes barred cricket.
Adios Gary, the worst kept secret in world football concluded yesterday with Senor Neville getting the genuine Spanish elbow…

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