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Hi Pat and crew: I would really appreciate your opinion on the following two stocks: CanElson Drilling and Baytex Energy. Thanks so much!

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CanElson Drilling, $6.44, symbol CDI on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 82.9 million; Market cap: $533.6 million; www.canelsondrilling.com), mainly operates drilling rigs in Western Canada, the Permian Basin (West Texas), North Dakota and the Ebano-Panuco-Cacalilao field near Tampico, Mexico. The company operates the rigs under contract to oil and gas exploration and development firms. It is now operating 43 rigs: 22 in Canada, 12 in Texas, five in North Dakota and four in Mexico. In the three months ended June 30, 2013, CanElson’s revenue rose 10.8%, to $37.5 million from $33.8 million a year earlier. Cash flow per share rose 25.0%, to $0.15 from $0.12. The average age of the company’s drilling fleet is just 4.7 years, and the rigs can drill to depths of more than 4,000 metres. This makes them well suited to the needs of today’s oil and gas producers, who are drilling more complicated wells, including very deep horizontal wells. Oil and gas developers use horizontal wells to…