The Times Tempus 'Top 10 Tips' for 2007 includes Venture Production in it's selection:
"Venture Production gives the portfolio its clearest exposure to commodities. Venture is an oil and gas company that specialises in buying mature assets in the North Sea and, through the application of the latest thinking on extraction techniques, squeezes out as much hydrocarbon as it can. Its projects tend to be on a relatively small scale — too small to interest the oil majors but big enough to have delivered handsome share price returns in the past couple of years. With luck, the pattern will continue."