Last week we discussed why water is one of the industry’s biggest threats... AND one of investors’ biggest opportunities. To illustrate the problem, consider that well over 90% of the U.S. onshore produced water generated by the oil and gas industry is disposed into an Underground Injection well (UIC)/salt water...
Many investors are aware of the technological innovation – fracking – which has brought about a natural gas boom in North America. But the new technologies just keep coming...and the latest technologies will again REVOLUTIONIZE the global natural gas industry. The latest significant breakthroughs have to do with the production...
The Energy Sector is having a RED day; a down day as oil prices re-trench.  Oil is supposed to do that at this time of year--the shoulder season between summer driving season and winter heating. But it always makes me re-think my investing strategies.  So right NOW--if I had to--where...
Investors don’t need to hire Sherlock Holmes to help them see what it did to the balance sheet of Cenovus (CVE-NYSE/TSX) after spending $17.7 billion to buy most of Conoco-Phillips (COP-NYSE) Canadian assets this week. It’s a whopper of a deal. In total what is being acquired adds 298,000 BOE/day of...
by Elizabeth Lappin, P.Geo Elizabeth is the Geothermal Ambassador Coordinator at CanGEA, and the Founder of Castle Rock Consulting Ltd.  Alberta’s oil and gas wells produce thousands of barrels of water each day. This water is considered a waste by the oil patch, and operators pay to send it away by...
I’m all about empowering retail investors.  I write my blog and my subscriber paid copy to help them gain back an edge against the institutional money that gets better information faster in the markets.  I mean, how many retail investors have a paid analyst at their call? That’s why I’m...
Toronto-based Cormark Securities reaffirmed its Top Pick recommendation for Pure Energy Services (PSV:TSX) and increased its target price for the company's stock to $14.00 from $13.00.
by Elizabeth Lappin, P.Geo Elizabeth is the Geothermal Ambassador Coordinator at CanGEA, and the Founder of Castle Rock Consulting Ltd.  In Part 1 of this series on geothermal energy, I outlined the potential of it for both the oil and gas industry and consumers.  It’s a feel-good story, that can get a lot...