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Canadian Overseas Petroleum relinquishes most of its stake in the OPL226 licence, yet its share price more than doubles - avoid as reality hits home

By Gary Newman | Friday 5 June 2020


Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from ShareProphets). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


It shows just how crazy the markets are currently when a small oil company can announce that it has just lost ownership of most of its asset that has the potential to produce oil, yet its share price rockets by more than 100%! I am of course talking about consistent AIM failure, Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), and its OPL226 licence in Nigeria which has apparently been on the verge of reaching production for several years now, and was due to have an appraisal well drilled later this year, but that was before the emergence of Covid-19 and I’d be surprised if that goes ahead as planned. Even more so following the latest news...

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