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Shares in DNO International closed up more than 11% on Wednesday after the company announced strong performance in the second quarter of 2011 with a working interest production of 48,582 barrels of oil per day (bopd), doubling of the reserves at the Tawke field and good financial performance. Sales recognized in the second quarter this […]
DNO International ASA's Board of Directors today announced a share buyback program following release of preliminary second quarter 2011 results. The timing and volume of the share purchases will depend on market conditions. "Given the ongoing sell-off and sharp declines in global securities, we have decided to invest available cash to capitalise on the undervaluation […]
Shares in DNO International jumped 8% on Tuesday following its report of a more than doubling of reserves for the Tawke oil field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, as a result of a review and assessment by a firm of independent reservoir engineers. The just completed audit of reserves by France’s Beicip Franlab places […]
Shares in Norway-based DNO International jumped 16% on Monday following the announcement of its merger with RAK Petroleum's Middle East and North Africa subsidiaries. A tie-up between the two companies has been rumoured for some time, especially following the boardroom coup that saw RAK's CEO oust DNO's chairman. You can hear a replay of this […]
Shares in DNO were up as much as 7% during the day on Tuesday, before closing the day up 4.25% up on Monday's close, following the announcement of increased reserves at its Tawke oilfield: The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is conducting its first ever survey of regional oil and […]
Norwegian investor Berge Gerdt Larsen was booted out as chairman of DNO International on Thursday, in a boardroom coup led by majority shareholder RAK Petroleum. RAK chief executive, Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani (pictured), was voted in as new chairman at the Norwegian independent’s annual general meeting in Oslo, after the Middle East shareholder disclosed its plan to […]
Norwegian oil producer DNO issued a report today (Monday) on the status on its activities in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Summail-1 exploration well update The Summail-1 exploration well was spudded on 19 April 2011. The well has now been drilled ca. 25 meters into the Cretaceous interval and hydrocarbon shows were detected while drilling. An […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has received a written notice from the federal Ministry of Finance in Baghdad, confirming release of the first oil export payment to the KRG contractors, Prime Minister Barham Salih (pictured) announced today. The Prime Minister said, “This confirmation of payment to the KRG for the Region’s contractors amounts to around […]
DNO released its final audited 2010 Annual Report on Friday. DNO's financial results are unchanged from what was presented to the market as the preliminary financial results on 17 February 2011. In 2010 the Company delivered revenues of NOK 1,252 million and an operating profit of NOK 157 million. The EBITDA in 2010 was NOK […]
Reuters reports that Norwegian oil company DNO said it had resolved a long dispute over former U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith's middle-man role in a 2004 Iraqi oil deal by paying damages and legal costs as high as $92 million. That compares to the $55 to $75 million in damages DNO estimated last October it would […]
DNO has today presented its Annual Statement of Reserves ("ASR") as of 31.12.2010. The total remaining P50 reserves for DNO as of 31.12.2010 are estimated at 194.2 million barrels of oil equivalents, on a working interest (WI) basis, which represent the commercial reserves, class 1-3, under Norwegian Petroleum Directorate classification. This is an increase of 30% […]
DNO, the Norwegian oil company with operations in Iraqi Kurdistan, has announcee that the bond offering it announced on 9th March has been completed on 30th March, 2011. The bond issue was split between a USD tranche of approx. USD 140 million and a NOK tranche of approx. NOK 560 million, for a combined amount […]
