Paramount adds assets

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PARAMOUNT RESOURCES $6.08 (Toronto symbol POU; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (403-290-3600; www.paramountres.com; Shares outstanding: 130.9 million; Market cap: $796.0 million; No dividends paid) owns oil and gas properties in Alberta and B.C. Paramount has now reportedly bought the Alberta oil sands assets of Koch Industries. That company is run by billionaire U.S. investors the Koch Brothers. Paramount has yet to disclose a purchase price. The assets consist of licences for future heavy oil production plus thousands of acres of exploration lands. Big U.S. producers continue to exit Western Canadian heavy oil. That’s giving strong Canadian producers, such as Paramount, a chance to pick up assets at distressed prices. Paramount Resources is a buy. buy…