IN THE NEWS / Short Position Report
Courtesy of Al R @ - Canadian Oil and Gas Companies Subject Subject 3540
Outstanding short positions in stocks for the four major Canadian exchanges - Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Alberta - as of Dec. 15, 1998. Excludes issues where short position is less than 1000,000 shares except where change from previous report is more than 50,000 shares. Data supplied by the Toronto Stock Exchange. Company Stock Short Change from Names Symbol Position previous report
Alberta Energy AEC 103,741 - 16,936 Berkley Petroleum BKP 186,700 - 2,407 Big Bear Exploration BDX 186,700 +186,700 Blue Range Resource BBR.A 157,300 0 Bowater Canada BWX 131,400 - 5,000 Calahoo Petroleum CLX 55,000 + 54,500 Canadian 88 Energy EEE 618,000 - 13,280 Canadian Occidental CXY 1,215,963 - 7,700 Canadian Resources RTU.UN 184,500 +171,400 Elk Point Resources ELK 74,000 - 86,400 Founder Energy FDE 312,200 +160,700 Genesis Exploration GEX 23,700 - 69,900 Gulf Canada Resources GOU 839,904 - 22,100 Hilton Petroleum HTP 47,866 -110,434 Hurricane Hydrocarbons HHL.A 1,742,800 -753,000 Imperial Oil IMO 405,754 + 88,700 Kintail Energy KTE 0 - 75,000 New Blue Ribbon Res NBL 0 - 68,000 Pacalta Resources PAZ 336,300 - 4,400 Pacific Ranger Pet PAI 50,000 + 50,000 Para-Tech Energy Ser PTY 0 -129,000 Pengrowth Energy PGF.UN 242,200 - 12,400 Penn West Petroleum PWT 13,501 -919,600 Petro-Canada PCA 1,410,655 +152,650 Poco Petroleums POC 164,131 - 5,800 Post Energy PSN 161,100 0 Prime West Energy PWI.UN 200,200 - 47,195 Probe Exploration PRX 654,000 -176,500 Ranger Oil RGO 161,274 + 66,500 Remington Energy REL 306,500 +193,400 Renaissance Energy RES 1,082,512 +106,600 Richland Petroleum RLP 100,000 +100,000 Scimitar Hydrocarbons SIY 69,472 + 69,472 Shell Canada SHC 231,508 +103,700 Stanford Oil & Gas SOG 109,600 -314,133 Storm Energy SME 106,819 0 Suncor Energy SU 435,586 +151,300 Talisman Energy TLM 1,342,746 +220,300 TransCanada Pipelines TRP 1,021,852 - 78,771 UTS Energy Corp UTS 51,000 + 51,000 Westcost Energy W 337,799 + 92,496
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