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Hi Pat: Can I have your opinion on the following stock: Essential Energy Services? Thank you.

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Essential Energy Services, $2.87, symbol ESN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 125.2 million; Market cap: $359.4 million; www.essentialenergy.ca), provides well-servicing support through its 73 rod and service rigs and 47 coil tubing units. Rod rigs specialize in servicing producing oil wells. Service rigs are typically used to repair, maintain or deepen existing oil and gas wells or to complete new ones. Coil tubing rigs have continuous coiled tubing that is used to pump inert gas or other fluids through the tubing to clean out oil and gas wells or deal with specific problems and conditions in the wellbore. In addition, the company provides nitrogen and fluid pumping equipment to well-servicing operations. Essential also rents equipment and tools and provides support personnel. In the six months ended June 30, 2013, Essential’s revenue fell 6.0%, to $158.9 million from $169.1 million a year earlier. Earnings per share declined to $0.08 from $0.11. Melting snowpacks at the end of winter and ongoing wet conditions in…