** Shares of Bass Oil BAS.AX jump as much as 7.1% to
A$0.060
** Says co achieved average sales price of A$129.99 per
barrel for the oil sales at Cooper Basin operations in
Queensland in February, up 6.6% from January
** Says optimisation work at Cooper Basin will lead to
potential increase in production to over 100 barrels of oil per
day
** Nearly 280,000 shares change hands as compared with the
30-day average volume of ~313,800 shares
** Stock down 30.9% this year as of last close, vs a 2.5%
increase in the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO
(Reporting by Roushni Nair in Bengaluru)
((Roushni.Nair@thomsonreuters.com;))