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| PAST TOP PICK | 2.670 | Joseph Schachter | (A Top Pick Sept 11/07. Up 3%.) Merging with Gran Tierra (GTE-T). Sold his holdings at a higher profit. | 2008-11-14 | |
| HOLD | 4.050 | Joseph Schachter | In a merger process with Gran Tierra (GTE-T) who is the operator of the main asset of the Costayaco play in Colombia. If you own, tender to the offer. This will allow them to work together in Colombia, Argentina and Peru. Fabulous story. | 2008-09-25 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 4.600 | Joseph Schachter | (A Top Pick Sept 11/07. Up 160%.) Discovery in Colombia with Gran Tierra (GTE-T). Merging. Costayaco can produce anywhere between 3 and 6 thousand BOE’s a day. Still have to do a lot of drilling. Long-term holding. | 2008-08-26 | |
| Comment | 4.430 | Joseph Schachter | Costayaco4 tested some very good results and was way thicker than people had thought. Waiting to see the results from this well. They will then drill C5 and C6 later this year. Reasonably valued at the present time. There are cheaper stories available at this point. | 2008-07-25 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 4.300 | Joseph Schachter | (A Top Pick July 20/07. Up 123%.) He has taken some of his profit off the table. Stock is in a Holding pattern now. | 2008-06-05 | |
| HOLD | 3.700 | Alex Ruus | The higher stock price recognizes some good results plus the rise in the commodity price. Colombia is one of the most attractive fiscal regimes in the world. Pretty stable government. | 2008-04-22 | |
| BUY | 3.450 | Joseph Schachter | 50% partnership with operator Gran Tierra (GTE-T) in a project in Colombia. Fabulous wells. Have drilled Costayaco2 and are now drilling Costayaco3. There could be 10 wells in this play. He doesn't know how big it is. In his models, he is using 30 million barrels of recoverable oil. Use a 2, 3 year time horizon. | 2008-04-04 | |
| HOLD | 2.950 | Joseph Schachter | Has this under review. Have one rig and are talking about bringing in a second. Will be testing Costayaco 3 and there should be some announcements in the next week or two. Costayaco 1 is producing 3500 BOE's b-day. Costayaco 2 tested over 6600 but they don't have enough take away capacity so they have to build pipelines, which will take until 2009. | 2008-03-07 | |
| BUY | 3.000 | Alex Ruus | Colombia is one of the hottest areas to invest in oil/gas today. Very attractive fiscal regime. Expect to see more positive drill results going forward. | 2008-02-25 | |
| Comment | 2.900 | Joseph Schachter | Their key play is a fabulous well, Costayaco in Colombia. Half belongs to Gran Tierra (GTRE-Q2). Also bringing in a rig to drill 5 other high impact wells this year. Very close to his $3 target now and he is putting the stock under review until he hears about Costayaco2. If it is as good, he would probably have a $4 target. Prefers Gran Tierra (GTRE-Q2), which is cheaper but is waiting for it to get its TSX listing. | 2008-01-24 | |
| BUY | 2.280 | Joseph Schachter | Along with Gran Tierra (GTRE-Q2) they are drilling an important well, Costayaco 2. Costayaco #1 came in and is in production and tested over 5000 BOE's and producing nearly 3000. Being trucked but will some day be piped. Will be starting on Costayaco 3. Likes the story and that they have a lot of drilling in front of them. | 2008-01-02 | |
| HOLD | 2.030 | Joseph Schachter | The big story for them is their 50% in Costayaco that is doing 2200 BOE's. Expect this will average 3150 in 2008. Prefers Gran Tierra (GTRE-Q2), the operator of this play. | 2007-12-19 | |
| TOP PICK | 2.600 | Joseph Schachter | Had a recent run. Believes that it still has a lot of upside. | 2007-10-22 | |
| TOP PICK | 2.250 | Joseph Schachter | Had very good success on a recent well in which they were partners 50/50. Tested at 5900 barrels a day and can probably produce 2000. Also had another recent success with the figures still to come out. Had a $3 target but will have to raise this again. | 2007-10-11 | |
| BUY | 2.200 | Hap (Robert) Sneddon FCSI | Has a nice little move from the base that was built into June. Oil/gas sector has really not gone anywhere. MACD is above both its moving averages and looks like it is trying to give a bit of a Sell signal, but looks like a pretty good story. Stock is being accumulated. | 2007-10-09 | |
| TOP PICK | 1.650 | Joseph Schachter | In Colombia. Announced a success that tested 5900 BOE's a day with some of the zones able to produce 2000 a day. Going back in Nov-Dec with some big rigs. | 2007-09-11 | |
| BUY | 1.720 | Joseph Schachter | The Costa Yaqua well could potentially open up a field that could be 20 to 30 million barrels. Wells that could do 2000 barrels a day. Drilling a new well that could be 5-8 million target. Should know in a few weeks. In October/November, will be back to Costa Yaqua doing-step out drilling. | 2007-08-17 | |
| TOP PICK | 1.910 | Joseph Schachter | Recently announced a well (in Colombia) that came in at 5,900 BOE's. Sees this project being expanded as they go back to drill in October. Also drilling 2 other wells with one of them possibly being $1 of value. His target is $3, but if the drill bit co-operates, it could go a lot higher. | 2007-07-20 | |
| BUY | 1.070 | Joseph Schachter | They are well enough financed to complete their ambitious program. They've taken a lot of the difficulties out of the way. His company bought at $1.75, it's now at $1.06, Likes the way the company is moving forward, thinks that they have a good future. | 2007-06-04 | |
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| HOLD | 0.830 | Joseph Schachter | Colombia is a tough area. A number of companies are there but nobody has had any material success. New management team. 5 exploration wells are being drilled. Higher risk play. | 2007-04-24 | |
| Comment | 0.810 | Joseph Schachter | Property in Colombia. There is a shortage of service rigs in the country. Can't drill in the rainy season. Stock has been hit hard. In the next 6 months he expects to find out one way or another if it's going to be a win. They have the money to execute. | 2007-01-23 | |
| DON'T BUY | 0.880 | Robert Toole | Not familiar with this particular company. Situated in Colombia, which represents a big opportunity for companies, but was significant risks. The area is prolific for crude oil. The big issue is the guerrillas. | 2007-01-18 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 1.240 | Joseph Schachter | (A Top Pick Nov 11/05. Down 39.3%.) The Columbian basin is very attractive. A lot of oil there. Did have some successes, but couldn’t get rigs to test. New management. Under review at present. If you own, Hold. | 2006-11-15 | |
| HOLD | 1.120 | Joseph Schachter | The company has had some problems. (equipment has been breaking down) Stock is down. Recommends to buy if there is success in the field. Believes it will win. Stay with it. | 2006-09-29 | |
| BUY | 1.490 | Joseph Schachter | Prizes they are going after are pretty significant. One of the negatives was lack of equipment. Still do not have access to service rigs which are needed when they have a successful drilling. More rigs are starting to come into the country. | 2006-06-20 | |
| TOP PICK | 2.220 | Joseph Schachter | Involved in Colombia which is having an election on May 28, which should be watched. Drilling wells that have quite high impact. They have $.71 cash per share which gives nice downside protection. | 2006-05-05 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 2.180 | Joseph Schachter | (A Top Pick Sept 26/05. Down 6%.) It did get over his target of $3 but slipped back. Dropped because of a financing. Still likes. | 2006-04-12 | |
| HOLD | 2.400 | Joseph Schachter | Sojana Resources wells has had success in 2 zones. The gas permeability was very low so they need to drill another well so that they can analyse it . A lot of information that needs to be determined. If you own it stay with it. They like the company because they have a very large portfolio of drilling over the next 18 months. Even if they have moderate success there is material upside on this stock. | 2006-03-09 | |
| BUY | 3.190 | Joseph Schachter | Waiting for information on a high impact well. They are in the process of testing and the results may be available in a week. Very bullish on the story. If it is material, it will require a lot of development drilling. | 2006-01-11 | |
| TOP PICK | 2.650 | Joseph Schachter | Waiting for news of an important well in the Yecaras (?) field. He has a target of 175 million barrels. They have a 37% intr=erest in this. | 2005-11-22 | |
| TOP PICK | 2.190 | Joseph Schachter | Have a very aggressive exploration program in front of them. Have done 5 wells so far this year with 3 successes and 2 D&A. Their Puma well is going to be logged this week and, if successful, could have a potential of $2 NAV. In the next 4 months, they have 5 more wells. | 2005-10-07 | |
| TOP PICK | 2.290 | Joseph Schachter | Had a problem getting comfortable with this because of being in Combia. The country now has one of the best fiscal regimes and the insurgent issues have been worked out. Can see a tremendous upside. Drilling 11 high impact wells between now and the end of '06 of which 7 will be over the next few quarters. | 2005-09-26 | |
| TOP PICK | 1.830 | Joseph Schachter | Located in Colombia. Over $4 in January and then backed off to $1 then had 2 successful wells in a row. Drilling another well in Poomah which is a target of a potential 60 million barrels. They have 17% interest and if it comers in could add $2 to the NAV and the $3 target would then go to $5. | 2005-09-04 | |
| TOP PICK | 1.370 | Joseph Schachter | Involved in low and high risk high impact drilling in Columbia, so the biggest problem is the country risk. Hit a couple of dry wells and the stock came down. Has about $50 million of cash or about $0.70/0.75 per share, so the risk is out of the story. If they have only one success on the development location it would have a $2.25 target. Had 2 successes last week. | 2005-08-02 |
