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One of the (most profitable) things I do for subscribers is stay on top of all the new shale plays popping up all over the world. While shale oil and gas are widespread in North America, the global shale revolution is just starting — but is sure to continue for...
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...
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. ...
I asked Dave Blais, a full-time investor of gold and silver stocks, for an update on his take on the action in the precious metals markets. Here's his report... Is the current gold and silver stock sale one of the best in years? Is the current gold and silver stock correction...
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...
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...
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...
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...