Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Dialog advances on landing Balai small field development

KUALA LUMPUR: DIALOG GROUP BHD [] shares rose on Wednesday, Aug 17 after the company made its foray into the development and production of marginal hydrocarbon reserves in Malaysia following its joint venture (JV) securing a contract from Petroliam Nasional Bhd.

At 9.45am, Dialog rose four sen to RM2.71 with 3.98 million shares traded.

Dialog and its partners Roc Oil and Petronas Carigali clinched a 15-year Petronas contract worth up to US$950m to develop the Balai cluster fields.

CIMB Research in a note Aug 17 said it not surprised that Dialog landed its first-ever upstream venture but was positively surprised by Petronas Carigali's involvement in this 2-phase project.

The research house left its forecasts unchanged as it had imputed CONSTRUCTION [] contributions during the pre-development phase.

CIMB Research said commercial production would start 24 months after commencement, i.e. beyond its forecast period.

'Our SOP-based target price rises from RM3.21 to RM3.48 as we apply a 40% premium to the businesses that we previously valued at 20% premium over our 14.5x target market P/E.

'This puts their valuations on par with those of larger O&G companies. Dialog remains an OUTPERFORM, with the potential share price triggers being this contract and the Rapid project,' it said.

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