Santos to undertake white elephant review

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From The Australian, the former stars are forming meteor shower:

Santos posted record annual and quarterly sales revenue figures driven by the ramping up of production from the PNG LNG project as well as higher Cooper Basin output.

…Santos said it will be undertaking an impairment review in the wake of the lower oil price, which has slumped to six-and-a-half-year lows.

As such, Santos said, the group’s financial results for the year, to be announced in February, may differ from the guidance provided today.

Stand by for white elephant write downs.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.