Premier Oil cuts more debt than forecast

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Premier Oil <PMO.L> cut debt to $2.3 billion (1.80 billion pounds) at the end of 2018, below a previous forecast of $2.4 billion, it said in a trading update on Thursday.

Premier's full-year production of 80,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day came in slightly above its guidance and 7 percent above its 2017 output.

(Reporting By Shadia Nasralla and Arathy S Nair; Editing by David Goodman)