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Malcolm Graham Wood is paid large sums of money by oil companies to write reports on their shares which - for obvious reasons - don't tend to be bearish. He does not declare if a company whose shares he is tipping has paid him to do so or not. As such his research should ALL be ignored. Commentators must be transparent in why they are writing. If they are not they are discredited and should be drummed out of town. As such I ignore this pompous lard-bucket.
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Paul Curtis
Tom
The flaw in your case is that when oil bounces, GKP assets will increase in value allowing farm out or sale on more attractive term. A higher oil price will allow KRG to make regular payments and hopefully back payments. This will re-rate corporate interest in both Genel and GKP.
If you think oil will still be in bear market by 2017 then yes, equity looks toasts
Drunken Sailor
Paul,
The flaw in your argument is there is no imminent sign of a bounce in the oil price and the sands of time for GKP are running low (Iron Maiden lyric from decades ago).
The Oil shares to invest in for a bounce in the oil price in the longer term are BP and Shell, they are struggling with the low oil price, but because they have significant interests outside of oil production they can still afford to pay dividends etc.
The argument that had the oil price not crashed GKP would have been ok is probably valid, but if your aunty had balls she would be your uncle. Live in the real world and not the imaginary world and you will make better investing decisions.
Phil
Shareholders in GKP should go and do some better research into the attitudes and actions of the Kurds over the decades particularly on the streets of Turkey, I’m left wondering why you should be selling them any oil in the first place, there is nothing benign about it.