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Hi Pat: I would appreciate your opinion on NAL Oil & Gas Trust.

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NAL Oil & Gas Trust, $11.30, symbol NAE.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 146.4 million; Market cap: $1.7 billion), is a royalty trust that develops, produces and sells crude oil, natural gas and natural-gas liquids, mainly in southeastern Saskatchewan (in the Bakken, Mississippian and Tilston formations) and Sylvan Lake, Alberta (in the Cardium and Mannville formations). NAL’s average daily production of 29,609 barrels of oil equivalent (including natural gas) is weighted 51% toward natural gas and 49% to oil. At current production rates, the trust has proven oil and natural-gas reserves that should last 6.9 years. In the three months ended June 30, 2010, NAL’s cash flow was $0.43 a unit. The units trade at 5.7 times the trust’s forecast 2010 cash flow of $1.98 a share. NAL’s long-term debt of $396 million is a reasonable 23.3% of its $1.7-billion market cap. NAL pays out just 55% of its cash flow as distributions. The units yield 9.6%. The trust plans to convert…