There is a multi-billion dollar problem in the oil patch just looking for a solution—get oil to flow better along the horizontal leg of a well. A small Canadian company called Raise Production Inc. (RPC-TSXv; GLKFF-PINK) thinks it may have the answer. They have developed a way to place many small...
Part I of this series is here. If history is any guide, the world will continue its current 15 year cooling trend for another 20 years potentially.  In fact, there is a good chance the earth is about to go into one of its coolest periods in the last 250...
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...
Meeting management is key.  To ride the  Big Bulls—those stocks that just keep going up—meeting the CEO gives you that extra conviction to hang on for big capital gains. The 200+ investors who heard the CEOs of OGIB companies got that opportunity on Saturday, March 1st, at the Subscriber Investment...
by Shaun Polczer Smart money isn’t making big investments in natural gas.  It’s making HUGE investments. One of the industry's most fiscally conservative -- and notoriously cheap -- operators, CNRL (CNQ-NYSE/TSX; $36) reportedly bought Devon Canada’s entire conventional oil and gas—but mainly gas—assets for $3.1 billion;  reportedly sight unseen. It didn't even wait...
Elephant hunting for huge international oil plays usually means going into (very) politically risky areas. That’s what makes junior Petromanas (PMI-TSXv) stand out from the crowd. They’re chasing a potential 500-800 million barrel target in Europe—Albania to be exact. Lots of energy investors are familiar with Bankers Petroleum and their...
In Part 1 I explained how Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale is the only international play—so far—that looks like it could be bigger than the Bakken. For investors, the challenge is that most of the activity in Argentina today is controlled by major companies. Names like Shell, ExxonMobil, EOG Resources and...
Argentina is the “Comeback Kid” story of 2014. After getting vilified for nationalizing one large ownership block in the prolific Vaca Muerta shale play in 2012, Big Oil is coming back in a Big Way—and dragging up the share price of the fast growing juniors in the play. Most investors...