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The Cline Shale in Texas is one of the hottest new shale plays in the USA.  Devon Energy (DVN-NYSE) is suggesting it’s a huge play, pervasive over a very large area on the eastern shelf of the Permian Basin. In fact, the Permian is bursting with new resource plays—what’s old...
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It has been two years since I was earnestly combing through junior oil producers to find the best investment. But now that oil prices have moved up from $26-$46/barrel since mid-February, there are—believe it or not—a (very) few junior producers who can grow production within cash flow at these...
A new development in “fracking” will mean lower costs and higher oil and gas recoveries, says Dan Themig, President of Packers Plus, a privately owned completions (fracking) company based in Calgary, Alberta.  This would mean higher profits for energy producers. Themig’s new product – QuickFRAC® – is part of...
Dubai started to interest me in 2012 when I was in Kurdistan, which is just off the top of the map below, above the word Baghdad.  I was on a property visit—travelling half way around the world to see a pipe coming out of the ground—and all the brokers...
INTRODUCTION Short Tesla (TSLA-NASD: $250).  Target Price = $12.  Twelve Dollars.  That would be a 95% drop from its share price today.  There is a lot of emotion and hype around the company and stock right now, with its cheap electric car model, the Tesla 3, getting banner headlines every day...
The Alberta Bakken has gained a lot of visibility in the last month, but how quickly will events on the ground develop?  And where can retail investors profit the most from this new play? This hot new play is being touted as a probable look-alike for the Saskatchewan-North Dakota Bakken. ...
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...