david pescod takeover by cpgAugust 5, 2009
TRISTAR OIL AND GAS
(T-TOG)
$14.12 +2.61
PAINTED PONY PETE.
(V-PPY.A)
$3.55 +0.15
WAVEFRONT ENERGY
(V-WEE)
$0.62 -0.03
Not a bad call by Keith Schaefer, editor of the relatively
new Oil and Gas Investments newsletter. It was just a
month ago he was suggesting Tristar Oil and Gas deserved to
be purchased and then trading at $10.70 (July 2). Schae-
fer’s take was that the consolidation of the Bakken area
would continue and that Tristar would be an obvious target.
Petrobank will be taking over Tristar and forming a new
will be taking over Tristar and forming a new
company to be called PetroBakken Energy, which will in-
volve the buying out of Tristar for $14.75 cash or .535 of a
PetroBakken share. All in all, the chart shows you, it’s been
a rather profitable month for Keith, but as the saying goes,
"What have you done for us lately?"
For those who follow his work through his website or
through his letter, today he is "I bought 1000 shares of
Painted Pony Petroleum this morning. This debt-free company
this morning. This debt-free company
is only 51% oil, but it’s in the Bakken and is the last real
junior player left in that play with a decent land position. I
think there is a good chance it will get bought out just like
Tristar did."
He continues, "I’m only buying 1000 shares now because
I’m hoping to buy more at a cheaper price should oil pull
back even a bit. The company just raised 7,000,000 shares
at $2.85 for roughly $20 million in equity to pay for recent
acquisitions and working cap."
It sounds like Keith Schaefer is having a lot of fun with
the new newsletter, but one story he has written up that we
have big hopes for in the coming while is Wavefront Energy, a
company with a new technology that could very much revo-
lutionize the oil and gas business, but until they come up
with some real contracts of some size, Wavefront will just
remain another interesting story.
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Ironically, we caught up with Jim Welykochy today, the
Vice President with Ryland Oil and Gas. This is a company
that in the good old days of $100 oil, created the big atten-
tion in the markets because their Chairman was Richard
Findley, who found the whole Bakken oil field in the Da-
, who found the whole Bakken oil field in the Da-
kota’s over a decade ago—helped form Ryland, a company
that unfortunately is not having a lot of joy. It has little
money in the kitty, around 200 million shares outstanding,
only 200 barrels a day of production, but they do have
320,000 acres of land in southern Saskatchewan. Unfortu-
nately, it appears to be a little bit west of the sweet spot for
Bakken.
When we ask Welykochy, the former oil and gas analyst
and now VP with Ryland, if he could only buy one stock
today, what would it be? He answers Painted Pony.
Tristar Oil and Gas
Painted Pony Petroleum
Wavefront Energy
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David Pescod 780-408-1750
Debbie Lewis 780-408-1748
Fax: 780-408-1501
COLOSSUS MINERALS
(T-CSI)
$3.13 -0.18
Colossus Minerals is one of those small, very rich explora-
tion plays in Brazil that is attracting some interest in the
market and today they announce some check assays that
were run for gold, platinum, palladium and the full platinum
group elements.
Nicholas Campbell, the Canaccord analyst following
, the analyst following
Colossus writes, "Eighteen mineralized intervals from 10
drill holes completed within the Central Mineralized Zone
were re-assayed and compared with previously released
assay results. The check assays showed a positive recon-
ciliation in 10 of the mineralized intervals and it showed a
negative reconciliation in 8 of the mineralized intervals;
however, the magnitude of the positive reconciliations sub-
stantially outweighed the negative reconciliations. On aver-
age, adjusting for the length of the mineralized interval, the
company reported a 30+% improvement in the gold equiva-
lent grade of the holes reported from the Phase I program."
Because of that 30% improvement in the grade, Camp-
bell increases his target on Colossus from $5.00 to $5.25,
suggesting there might be a lot of running room left for the
stock.
Also in the report, he adds what are the next catalysts
for the stock performance:
1) Phase II drill results: New drill results should be re-
leased before the end of August 2009.
2) Addition of a mine builder: Colossus is looking to ex-
pedite the development of the Serra Pelada project and
will likely bring on a senior mining engineer to facilitate
the development of a conceptual mine design and to
execute mine development.
3) Land acquisition: The mineral resource potential of the
Serra Pelada project is constrained by the relatively
small land package that it is hosted on. The mineraliza-
tion trends towards and remains open to expansion in
the southwest. Acquisition of the lands to the south-
west (held by Vale) would be very positive for CSI. Tim-
ing of such an acquisition is very difficult to pin down;
however, there is potential for an agreement to be put
in place before the end of 2009 to early 2010.
Meanwhile today, the stock is down despite the good
news...why? Is it the old "Sell on News?" Or maybe it’s
just that gold, after a nice move up yesterday, is down to-
day. Disclosure: Colossus Minerals: Canaccord Capital covers this stock and has a Speculative Buy rating on it. (Speculative buy: Stocks bear
: Colossus Minerals: Canaccord Capital covers this stock and has a Speculative Buy rating on it. (Speculative buy: Stocks bearsignificantly higher risk that typically cannot be valued by normal fundamental criteria. Investments in the stock may result in material loss.