BUCHAREST, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Romania's top oil and gas company Petrom posted a 100 million lei ($32.5 million) third-quarter net loss on Wednesday.
The average forecast in a Reuters poll was for a 461 million lei net profit.
Petrom, controlled by Austria's OMV, recorded a 719 million lei net profit in April-June and a 643 million lei figure in the third quarter last year.
(Reporting by Ioana Patran; Editing by David Holmes)
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The average forecast in a Reuters poll was for a 461 million lei net profit.
Petrom, controlled by Austria's OMV, recorded a 719 million lei net profit in April-June and a 643 million lei figure in the third quarter last year.
(Reporting by Ioana Patran; Editing by David Holmes)
($1=3.079 Romanian Leu) Keywords: PETROM/ (marius.zaharia@reuters.com ; +40 21 315 8320; Reuters Messaging: marius.zaharia.reuters.com@reuters.net ) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.