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Can the Bakken produce one million barrels a day of oil? If so, it would join an elite group of oil fields able to produce at that rate. Only six other fields, including Saudi Arabia's famed Ghawar field, have ever topped 1 million barrels per day--they are Burgan (Kuwait), Cantarell...
It's strange but true – some of the best performing energy stocks in Canada have been the junior GAS stocks. And there is also an argument that the future may be brighter than previously thought for a select few gas stocks. All these stocks have three things in common: 1.      They have...
Dear OGIB Reader, The cheapest and most profitable oil North America has ever seen is now “flooding” into the market, as producers once again use old technology to create a wave of new profits. Producers are using “waterfloods”—pushing water into underground formations to flush a large amount of oil out to...
Canadian LNG–Liquefied Natural Gas–exports aren’t getting a lot of respect these days, partly due to low LNG prices, and partly because of the high profile environmental opposition to Petronas’ proposed terminal location at Lelu Island near Prince Rupert. But behind the headlines, LNG Canada, a joint venture led by Shell...
Three months ago, it snowed in Cairo, Egypt for the first time in 112 years. 2013 was the largest one-year temperature drop ever recorded in the United States. The extent of the Antarctic sea ice is at record highs. It’s the Real Inconvenient Truth—right now the world is getting colder.  And it’s...
The stocks of natural gas producers have been hit hard by the low price and bearish outlook for the commodity. But a new report from Denver-based energy analytics company BENTEK makes me think natural gas pipeline stocks, pipeline MLPs and pipeline ETFs/ETNs in the U.S. could come under big...
In Part 1, I explained how LNG shippers will be one of the best investments—and THE best way to play cheap natural gas—right through to 2015. A combination of fast-rising demand from Asia and almost no new ships before the end of 2015 will keep cash flows and stock...
Dropping energy prices—for both oil and natural gas—has investors and analysts checking to see what the break-even price is for oil production in each play in North America. This is a moving target, and it’s going lower all the time. And I’m going to tell you The Next Phase of increasing...