My annual Vancouver conference is less than one month away--Thursday October 8.  Besides meeting the CEOs of some of the best junior producers in Canada, I have TWO speakers I'm very excited about: 1. VIVIAN KRAUSE Ms. Krause follows the money like nobody else in the resource sector--except she's not following...
One of the most beaten-down names in the entire oil services sector is Paragon Offshore (PGN-NYSE). A spinoff from the deepwater-focused Noble Corp (NE-NYSE), this “standard spec” offshore driller ended its first day of regular trading at $11 on August 4, 2014. The stock has continued on an almost uninterrupted...
A Blueprint For Small Cap Oil and Gas Investment Success – Part 1 You only make Big Money on mis-understood investments. And now that the oil price has collapsed to the point where there is almost no meaningful cash flow, mis-understood investments are easier to find. That’s because the Market has divided...
Investors can’t say definitively that the price of oil bottomed in the third week of March, but some very recent data  released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that supports the premise that a bottom is in.  More on that in a moment. From a low near $43 per barrel...
There are a lot of options for your hard earned capital and no shortage of folks wanting to tell you how to use it. Recent trends have been very profitable in different sectors. On the other hand, energy has displayed a horrendous previous 52 weeks. So here are 5 reasons not...
Corporate profits for US companies—especially small caps—could be set to soar 20% in the first half of 2015. That’s what happens when the CPI—the Consumer Price Index—breaks up and away from the PPI—the Producer Price Index. The chart below (courtesy of  Unit Economics in Boston) shows that the Consumer Price Index...
Everyone in the oilpatch is now nervous that the United States could run out of oil storage capacity.  This “storage issue” is now Big News, and is driving light oil prices in the US—WTI—to fresh six year lows of $42-ish a barrel. I see a lot of copy on the...
Tell me if you know Steve. Steve is a family man.   He lives his life in a way that makes his parents proud. He is hard working, spends 50 hours a week on the job so that his wife and kids can afford a nice house in a good neighborhood. Steve doesn’t...