Cash Flow Makes Masters Energy Cheap

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MASTERS ENERGY $3.84 (Toronto symbol MSY; SI Rating: Speculative) (403-290-1785; www.mastersenergy.com; Shares outstanding: 15.4 million; Market cap: $59.0 million) explores for and produces oil and natural gas in northern Alberta’s North Peace River Arch region and southern Alberta’s Little Bow district. Masters’ February, 2004 acquisition of Terraquest Energy for $10.8 million gave it interests in producing properties at Little Bow, Long Coulee, Grand Forks, Hector and Badger in southern Alberta. The Terraquest acquisition also provided 22,000 acres of undeveloped land for future drilling. In 2005, Masters spent $7.8 million on acquisitions of North Peace River Arch properties to create a second core producing area. Big boost to reserves in 2007 In 2007, Masters drilled 19 wells that resulted in 6 producing gas wells and 4 oil wells for a 53% success rate. Overall, the company was able to increase its reserves at the end of the year by 73% from the end of 2006, to 8.3 million barrels of oil equivalent from 4.8 million…