Possible Results by the end of December! A little article talking about Petroshale. This is the first time a news letter has mentioned Petroshale other than their own news releases. DEEP Value here!
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One U.S. shale oil producer, PetroShale Inc. (PSH), rose 13 cents to $2 on 1.6 million shares. This was on top of the four cents it added yesterday after releasing its third quarter financials. Yesterday's volume was a more typical 115,700 shares; today's heavier volume was largely thanks to Haywood Securities, which crossed a total of 1.47 million shares in three blocks this morning, all at $1.90. PetroShale is drilling the Bakken in North Dakota. Yesterday, the company released its third quarter results, including production of 1,894 barrels of oil equivalent a day. This is down from 2,571 barrels a day in the second quarter, but investors nonetheless lifted the stock by four cents to $1.87. The company explained that one of its wells stopped flowing as a result of declining reservoir pressure, but the well is now undergoing workovers and will be brought back on production this fourth quarter. Perhaps inspiring more optimism among shareholders is PetroShale's current four-well drilling program. In the third quarter, it spudded two wells in its Antelope area, and expects to complete them next month. After the third quarter, it spudded two wells at its South Berthold area and expects to complete them in January. Mike Wood, the company's recently appointed president and chief executive officer, looks forward to "meaningful" production increases from these four wells next year. PetroShale also plans to spud at least two more wells in the next four to six months.
Mr. Wood became the president and CEO in June, taking over those positions from Bruce Chernoff, who remains the company's executive chairman. Mr. Chernoff made PetroShale busier in the year before Mr. Wood's appointment. It was in the third quarter of 2016 when PetroShale drilled its first operated well in the Antelope area. In January, 2017, PetroShale received satisfying initial test results of 2,500 to 3,000 barrels of oil a day from the well. Two months later, Mr. Chernoff arranged for PetroShale a $70-million to $100-million prospectus offering at 90 cents to finance its capital program and to pay down debt. The company ended up raising $110-million, increasing its share count to 150 million from 27 million. Mr. Chernoff subscribed for 44.44 million shares in the financing. Since closing the financing in April, PetroShale has lowered its net debt to $60.4-million as of Sept. 30 from $144.3-million as of March 31. It has also acquired assets, including producing assets in North Dakota for $8.7-million (U.S.). Now, the stock has more than doubled from the 90 cents around which it was trading (thinly) in March.
As for the new president and CEO, Mr. Wood is a petroleum engineer and the chief operating officer of RimRock Oil & Gas, a private Bakken explorer backed by Warburg Pincus. He is a former vice-president of development and engineering at Talisman Energy (now a part of Spain's Repsol) and a former engineering manager of Chesapeake Energy.