Investor Relations

Vermilion is a Canadian-based international energy producer with operations in Canada, Western Europe and Australia. Vermilion converted to an energy trust in 2003 after operating for nearly nine years as a successful exploration and production company. As an energy trust, Vermilion has maintained a steady stream of monthly distribution payments to its unitholders and has delivered top quartile total return performance in four of the past six years. The compound average total rate of return for Vermilion units over the past five years is 16.5%, resulting in top quartile performance over this period. 

As an energy trust, Vermilion's reserves per unit (debt adjusted) have increased by 24%, and production per unit has increased by 17%. Over this same period, (2002-2008) Vermilion's peer group of Canadian energy trusts saw their reserves per unit decline by an average of 16% and their production per unit drop by 24%.

Vermilion has paid more than $900 million in distributions (more than 1.5 times the total amount of equity raised in the total history of Vermilion going back to 1994) to unitholders, and has never decreased monthly distributions.

Today's portfolio of properties is the strongest in Vermilion's history. A reserve life index of 10.5 years, additional drilling inventory of at least five years in each of its jurisdictions and long term value accretion opportunities attributable to the trust's large oil pools provide a solid foundation for future success.