Natural Resources >> Analyst Interviews >> June 19, 2000

European Oil Stocks : John Toalster – Sg Securities

JOHN TOALSTER graduated from the LSE in 1963 and became a university lecturer in Economics initially at the University of Sierra Leone and later at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He joined Mobil Oil as a corporate planner in 1969 prior to becoming a senior oil analyst at three different stockbrokers in the City of London in the 1970s. Thereafter, he worked in Kuwait for four years at KIIC managing the Corporate Finance department before running the Banking department. In 1983 he was appointed Head of Equity Research at Montagu Loebl Stanley prior to becoming Head of Oil and Gas Research at Hoare Govett. Since 1990 he has been a Director of Oil and Gas Research at SG Securities. Profile
TWST: Maybe we should start with a definition of the universe of stocks

that you follow.

Mr. Toalster: I've been following Royal Dutch Shell (RD.AS) and BP Amoco

(BPA.L) in particular, with a