John O'Connell, CFA
Bronco Energy
BCF-T
STRONG BUY
Oct 04, 2007
Have a very large resource in the oil sands area in Alberta. Have drilled about 40 wells and expecting to have 50 by the end of the year. Looking for 10,000 barrels a day. Completely immune from the Alberta royalty review process, because it is on Indian land. They will be coming out with some reserve numbers in the next 2 weeks.
Had experienced some delays and facilitate constraints in production. The play itself makes a lot of sense. Could get to $15-$16 on success of execution. If you believe in heavy oil and the differential, which is very narrow right now, management is one of the better ones.
New management team raised a convertible debenture. An issue would be their asset base. It will be a struggle as other companies have tried to drill it up but have abandoned it because of too much water.