Reportlinker Adds Forest Oil Corporation Valuation Report, July 2010 - Strategic and Operational Analysis

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Forest Oil Corporation Valuation Report, July 2010 - Strategic and Operational Analysis

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Forest Oil Corporation Valuation Report, July 2010 - Strategic and Operational Analysis

Summary

Forest Oil is an independent oil & gas company primarily dealing with exploration and production activities of natural gas, crude oil and NGLs in the US and Canada. The company has taken the strategic step of transforming itself from an offshore Gulf of Mexico operator to an onshore North America focused player. It has been pursuing acquisitions and divestitures actively since 2003–2004 and supplemented them with a strong display of drillbit reserve addition as part of this strategy. It invests in oil and gas assets with high growth opportunities and maintains financial flexibility aiming capital discipline and cost control. The company's core operations are located in Buffalo Wallow, east Texas/ north Louisiana and Canadian Deep Basin. Apart from these, it has interests in upcoming resource plays such as Utica Shale in Canada and Eagle Ford Shale in south Texas. The company had estimated proved reserves of approximately 354 million of barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) by the end of 2009 of which 83% were in the US, 15% in Canada and the rest in Italy. It also holds certain undeveloped acreage in South Africa. The company reported total oil & gas production of around 30.5 MMboe in 2009, an approximate 3.6% decline over the previous year volumes.

Scope

- Investment Thesis: This section highlights the companies new ventures, liquidity issues, assets analysis, hedging, new projects details, capex funding, geographical results of oil and gas operations, and other related analysis.

- Goals and Strategies: Provide highlights on their existing and upcoming challenges with the possible strategies.

- SWOT: This section highlights the companies internal strength, weakness, opportunities and threats to better understand their position in the market

- Production and Development profile: This section highlights the companies' forecasted crude oil and natural gas production from their existing and upcoming assets. It also covers the detailed information and analysis on the producing and development assets.

- Exploration and M&A trends: This section includes exploration assets information resulted due to new discoveries, new drilling and other activities. Additionally, M&A section highlights the companies' recent assets transactions, joint ventures, acquisition, and divestment activities during the specified period.

- Financial Forecast and Valuation: This section highlights the detailed financial forecast of the companies for coming five years. This section also provides intrinsic value of the companies' by using different valuation techniques.

- Peer Group: This section compares peer group performance with the main companies on the basis of share prices, financial ratios, operational and financial parameters and other related activities.

Reasons to buy

- The report will enhance the decision-making capability in a more rapid and time sensitive manner. It will allow you to:

- Provide detailed analysis to those who are interested in knowing the companies' existing and future business strategies.

- Provide in-depth analysis on the companies E&P profiles along with the exploration and M&A updates.

- Provide valuable insights to those who are tracking oil and gas markets and wants to know the intrinsic value of the companies.

- Use the analysis for strategy and planning, M&A identifications, and competitor analysis.

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