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Hi, Pat. Could I have your thoughts on Surge Energy? Thanks.

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Surge Energy, $2.01, symbol SGY on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 220.9 million; Market cap: $446.4 million; www.surgeenergy.ca), produces oil and gas in central and northwestern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan. Its output is 83% oil and 17% gas. In response to lower oil prices, and to pay down its debt, the company sold 5,300 barrels of oil equivalent of daily production in two transactions for $465 million earlier this year. It also unwound its crude oil hedging contracts for 2015 and realized a gain of over $35 million. Surge’s long-term debt now stands at $131.0 million, or a reasonable 24% of its market cap, down from $564.3 million at the end of 2014. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, the company produced 13,523 barrels of oil equivalent a day, down 33.5% from 20,327 a year earlier. The decline came from its asset sales and about 5,000 barrels that were held back for more than five weeks due to two pipeline outages. Without…