In many ways the oil industry is a fashion industry, and in 2011 the exciting new model on the investment bankers’ catwalk was the Duvernay shale.
Over $2 billion was spent acquiring big land packages, and the rising price per acre kept the play in the news headlines.
Covering over 100,000...
Free-Alert readers often ask me for an example of a full company report that I prepare for my subscribers onOGIB portfolio stocks. So here is one that I did late last year on a stock that turned out to be my biggest win so far of 2014--Pacific Ethanol, symbol PEIX-NASD.Retail investors didn't understand ethanol in early 2013 when...
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...
The Coming Energy Infrastructure Overcapacity Glut
October 1, 2015
By: Bill Powers
When free money is thrown at any part of the energy industry for a long enough length of time, the natural boom bust cycle can be taken to extremes and massive distortions can develop.
Due to unprecedented access to all forms...
The Brexit side has won. The British people, the nation (not the politicians) have voted to leave the European Union, and become as Norway and Switzerland are—in Europe but out of the EU.
This is not a binding vote; it’s only a referendum. And it was a very narrow margin—basically...
Commodity’ is now a four letter word.
Metal prices have collapsed. Oil is plummeting. Natural gas and coal are struggling, and iron ore is on death’s door.
But right now, there is one commodity that everyone agrees will rise in price this year.
The Big Banks are piling into the idea. Analyst...
Why are producers spending ANY money right now? I’ll tell you why—you can’t shrink yourself to greatness. But there is one very good reason to stop spending completely—Mergers and Acquisitions.
Now, nobody knows how long sub-$50 oil will last (and always remember that producers get $5-$10 less than WTI). Morgan...
The Canadian dollar has dropped 25% against the US dollar in the last 18 months, going from 94 cents to 71 cents. That's horrible news for Canadian drivers, as the lower loonie (as Canada's dollar is affectionately nicknamed) has almost completely eliminated any savings at the pump, while oil...
