Topic: Energy Stocks

Korean investors help Canadian producer step up shale oil development

Korean investors help Canadian producer step up shale oil development

BELLATRIX EXPLORATION (Toronto symbol BXE;www.bellatrixexploration.com) produces oil and natural gas in Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan. Gas makes up about 69% of its output; the remaining 31% is oil.

In the three months ended December 31, 2012, Bellatrix’s production rose 32.1%, to 18,763 barrels of oil equivalent per day (including natural gas) from 14,209 barrels. Cash flow per share rose 7.1%, to $0.30 from $0.28.

The company’s long-term debt is $183.7 million, or a low 29% of its market cap.


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Energy stocks: Company aims to boost production as high as 31,000 barrels a day by year’s end

Bellatrix has just announced a joint-venture agreement with an unnamed South Korea-based investment fund. This deal should speed up development of the company’s undeveloped Cardium shale oil deposits in west-central Alberta.

The company now expects its daily production to average 24,000 to 25,000 barrels of oil equivalent (including natural gas) per day this year. It could end 2013 with production as high as 30,000 to 31,000 barrels per day. To put that in perspective, Bellatrix likely ended 2012 with average production of 19,000 to 19,500 barrels a day.

Bellatrix’s shares trade at 5.2 times the company’s annual cash flow, based on the latest quarter.

In the latest edition of Stock Pickers Digest, we look at the extent of the financial commitment of the Korean investment fund to Bellatrix and the added risk of its ambitious drilling program in the Cardium deposits. We conclude with our clear buy-hold-sell advice on the stock.

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Do you think the increase in Asian money coming into Canada’s energy industry is a boon that will speed up development, or do you think it mortgages too much of Canada’s resources to outside sources? Let us know what you think.

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  • Keep it simple the world is the future of Canada.
    The future will give us the potential to utilize our
    large natural resources and the strong financial support with our high tech abilities. We are in great demand and we should move forward in all fields. It would not hurt to acquire more capitalism
    and less socialism. We should ride the tide of todays
    opportunities and not regress. Deveop all potentials and move forward politically and economically.
    81 years old migrated from USA to Canada in 1970
    When you hide and go into a shell you lose your
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