Topic: How To Invest

Pat: Can I have your advice on two oil and gas stocks: Anderson Energy and Fairborne Energy? Any comments would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Anderson Energy Ltd., $0.57, symbol AXL on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 172.6 million; Market cap: $98.4 million; www.andersonenergy.ca), produces and explores for oil and natural gas in central Alberta. The company’s production is now 68% gas and 32% oil; it aims to raise the proportion of oil to 50% in 2012. In the third quarter of 2011, Anderson’s cash flow was $0.07 a share, up 40% from $0.05 a share a year earlier. Higher oil and gas prices were the main reasons for the increase. The company’s production averaged 7,351 barrels per day (including natural gas) in the latest quarter, up slightly from 7,292 barrels a year earlier. Anderson expects to push up its daily production to 8,200 barrels per day in the fourth quarter of 2011. The company is mainly drilling horizontal wells. Horizontal drilling involves drilling development wells sideways or at an angle to reach isolated pockets of oil or gas, or to follow a reservoir spread out in a narrow layer. Horizontal…