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Pat: What is your opinion of Poseidon Concepts? Thanks.

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Poseidon Concepts Corp., $13.92, symbol PSN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 81.1 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; www.poseidonconcepts.com), rents its fluid-handling tanks to over 100 customers in the oil and natural gas industry. About 80% of the company’s contracts are with oil exploration firms. On November 1, 2011, Open Range Energy Corp. changed its name to Poseidon Concepts after it handed out shares of its oil and gas production interests to its shareholders. This new company retained the Open Range Energy name and Toronto symbol ONR. Poseidon kept the tank rental business and began trading on Toronto under the symbol PSN. Shale oil and gas producers rent Poseidon’s tanks to hold fracturing fluid, which they use to break apart the rock and release the oil and gas. Poseidon designed the tanks, but other companies make them. The company now rents about 340 of its tank systems across North America. It believes that its large tanks are more efficient than competing models because they can…