The Saudis want control of the oil market back, and they are lowering prices to weed out the high cost producers. But I found a western producer with even lower costs per barrel than the Saudis. That’s right—someone who beat them at their own game.  Just like the Saudis, this company...
Oil is up.  Consensus has changed from a supply glut to a more balanced market by the end of this year—but the Market is in full swing pricing that in now. Energy producers across the board have had a good run in the last month, and it could continue—both Brent and...
As the oil price fell from $105/barrel in 2014 to $26/barrel in 2016, producers, service companies and banks/lenders worked very co-operatively to keep as many people employed and as much oil flowing as possible. It has been a remarkably co-operative endeavour for the global energy industry. I expect that to change...
Sometimes you write a story.  Sometimes a story writes itself. In the next three sentences I’m going to give you everything you need to know. One… With more oil and gas producers in financial distress than aren’t, this has to be an historic opportunity to be buying oil and gas assets (especially...
Top Energy and Mining CEOs on Hot Seat March 5 in Toronto. Investors, Here's Your Free Invite Hedge fund activist investor Zach George of FrontFour Capital will deliver the keynote address at the Subscriber Investment Summit on March 5, 2016 at the Hilton Toronto. Photo: Colleen De Neve / Calgary Herald (Source) Contrary to popular...
Something Doesn’t Add Up In North Dakota’s November Production Report If you want to find buried treasure, you have to dig. And even then you may find the treasure chest is empty. That’s what happened to me this last two weeks as I realized one bit of oil data made NO sense...
Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus.  Private equity fund Edge Natural Resources LLC is taking Canamax Energy private--at 67 cents, or a hair shy of a double over Thursday’s share price. It has been my largest position for a junior for two years, and gives me--and the subscribers who bought it...
What are the Fathers of the Shale Revolution doing now? You would be surprised—I sure was.  The main part of the technical team from Mitchell Energy—which combined fracking and horizontal drilling to start The Shale Revolution in Texas’ Barnett Shale in 1998—is now working for a 15 cent junior in...