Q3 - OE_Strengths
What do you see as Tullow Oil’s particular strengths as an investment?
"They have a good technical team on the exploration side. And they sort of have a first mover advantage, previously, in a few basins."
Q4 - OE_Weaknesses
What do you see as Tullow Oil’s particular weaknesses as an investment?
"They are good people. But, when an organization has success, it believes too much in its ability to continue that success. And then, like many small companies there is no institutional process to replicate that success, meaning what really should have happened over the last several years is they should have stopped spending money on drilling. They had these corporate goals to continue to add a certain amount of resources each year, and they believed
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Please use a six-point scale where 6=extremely important and 1=not too important.
"1 [6-pt scale]. For us this is not important."
Q10
What is critical for Tullow Oil to achieve over the next 12 months for you to consider 2017 a success?
"I don't know how to answer this. Watching the returns they generate on the money they spend, which would take more than 12 months. That is the only thing we care about."
Q11 - TangShVal24-36Months
Looking out beyond 12 months, on a six-point scale where 6=very confident and 1=not at all confident, how confident are you that management will be able to deliver tangible shareholder value over the next two to three years?
"2 [6-pt scale]. This is a 2, because I don’t have any reason to be confident."
Q12 - OE_MostImportantThingsNeedToKnowMoreAbout
What are the two or three most important things you need to know more about in order for you to have greater confidence in Tullow Oil as an investment?
"Just watching what they do with the money. That's all – seeing the results."
Q17
Reasons for belief that factor will have the most impact on the industry over the next two to three
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Enerplus: A Risky Player for Defensive Investors Summary: • Oil prices declined again after gaining momentum in the last week. • Enerplus is currently undervalued, but the company’s stock will face more pressure in the coming days. • Oil fundamentals are still bleak from increasing supplies and Iranian deals. • This is potentially a risky play for defensive investors. Enerplus Corp (ERF) has emerged as one of the worst beaten-down stocks over the past three months, ever since oil collapsed to six year lows in mid-August and crude hovered at around $45 a barrel for more than four weeks.
It would aim at establishing a strong customer lifetime value. It would also search for new markets in other
Petroleum Name: Sumaya Ismail Ali ID: K-715810110 Name: Marwa Mohamed Elneel ID: K-215810001 Dr: Kauser Fatima Environmental issues What it is ? Petroleum or Crude oil: is thick liquid, flammable, and it has several of color, found under the ground. Petroleum is one of the fossil fuel with Coal and natural gas.