December 31 can't come fast enough!!! What a year it has been for energy investors – almost nothing worked in the upstream (producers & energy services) sector, and the junior sector was particularly hard hit.
In today's short video, I explain to you what The Big Energy Themes of 2018...
As a full time energy investor, I can tell you The Big Oil Stories of 2018 have been:
Volatility in oil prices
Oil stocks in general never really followed oil up in the first nine months of 2018. There were maybe a dozen stocks in the US that, if you owned...
Back in 2016 there was no bid for oil stocks.
The sector was dead money — and I knew it.
So I went looking to make money elsewhere — specifically, downstream — in search of innovation and disruption in the energy markets.
What I found there was something very special — a microcap...
INTRO: I’m off to Africa for almost a month—to celebrate my new “empty-nest” status. It set off a story idea for me—one that has largely gone under the radar, and is very bullish for oil prices.
U.S. shale production represents roughly 7% of global oil production.
On a daily basis we...
OGIB subscribers have had some great wins this year with GeoPark (GPRK-NYSE) and Viper Energy (VNOM-NASD), but my colleague Paul Andreola has had a series of 10-baggers over the last couple years at our sister publication, SmallCap Discoveries.
On Thursday October 18, my colleagues Paul Andreola and Brandon Mackie are...
The energy sector hasn’t represented this small of a percentage of the S&P 500 since the peak of the technology stock bubble in 1999.
No coincidentally--that was one really, really great time to be buying oil stocks.
I pulled the table below from the S&P data archives. It tells us the...
It just happened to me--the last of my three kids is out the door and on their own in the world.
This brings mixed emotions for me to be sure.
You spend the first twenty years of their lives trying to get them prepared for this day…..now you pray that they...
New global shipping fuel rules promise to upset the world’s crude slate for a couple years—causing havoc for investors and producers. In Part I, I explained how much pollution the shipping industry creates, and how shipowners are adapting. In Part II here, I explain what macro concerns there are...