Essar Oil surges on plan to start drilling at Ranigunj blocks

17 Aug 2011 Evaluate

Essar Oil is currently trading at Rs 93.30, up by 2.00 points or 2.19% from its previous closing of Rs 91.30 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 92.25 and has touched a high and low of Rs 93.30 and Rs 90.75 respectively. So far 128743 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 161.00 on 05-Nov-2010 and a 52 week low of Rs 90.90 on 16-Aug-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 102.50 and Rs 90.90 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 12468.54 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 15.96% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 4.84% and 5.20% respectively. 

Essar Oil is likely to begin second phase drilling of a little over 100 production wells at the Ranigunj (East) coal-bed methane (CBM) block near Durgapur in West Bengal, after a prolonged stalemate.  Currently the company is producing to the tune of 35,000 standard cubic metres of CBM gas a day (0.035 mmscmd) from 15 wells in the asset. 

Due to non-accessibility of environmental clearance, drilling operations in the block were suspended for nearly 8-10 months. Other than procedural reasons, complaints against the company for alleged violation of environmental guidelines also contributed to the stalemate. However, the delay in second phase drilling, may impact the production plan of the company.

The company’s profit for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 has jumped at Rs 469.00 crore as compared to loss of Rs 70.00 crore for the corresponding quarter last year. Its total income has grown by 42.26% at Rs 15024 crore for the quarter under review from Rs 10561 crore for the same quarter last year.

Essar Oil, a fully integrated Oil and Gas Company of international scale which is engaged in the exploration and production of oil and gas, refining of crude oil, and marketing of petroleum products.

 

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