Plains Exploration & Production Company Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Nov 01, 2012
Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2012-09-30.

Plains Exploration & Production Company has a market cap of $4.63 billion; its shares were traded at around $35.74 with a P/E ratio of 22.7 and P/S ratio of 2.4.

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The following information should be read in connection with the information contained in the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this report and our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011.

We are an independent energy company engaged in the upstream oil and gas business. The upstream business acquires, develops, explores for and produces oil and gas. Our upstream activities are located in the United States. We own oil and gas properties with principal operations in:

Assets in our principal focus areas include mature properties with long-lived reserves and significant development opportunities, as well as newer properties with development and exploration potential. We believe our balanced portfolio of assets and our ongoing risk management program position us well for both the current commodity price environment and future potential upside as we develop our attractive resource opportunities, including our California, Eagle Ford Shale, Haynesville Shale and Gulf of Mexico plays. Our primary sources of liquidity are cash generated from our operations, our senior revolving credit facility and periodic public offerings of debt and equity.

Our assets include 51.0 million shares of McMoRan common stock, approximately 31.5% of its common shares outstanding. We measure our equity investment at fair value. Unrealized gains and losses on the investment are reported in our income statement and could result in volatility in our earnings. See Item 3

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