It's strange but true – some of the best performing energy stocks in Canada have been the junior GAS stocks. And there is also an argument that the future may be brighter than previously thought for a select few gas stocks. All these stocks have three things in common: 1.      They have...
Can somebody tell me why the (Canadian) oil industry hates Justin Trudeau so much? Alberta seems to think the Prime Minister has it in for them.  They’ve gone so far as to send a caravan of trucks across the country just to let him know how angry they are! But I...
How do investors play the LNG boom that is still in the early stages in Canada? Many investors believe the opportunity is far off. After all, most of the projects are still in the application phase—it will be years before they get built and start selling cargos. But National Bank energy...
The Saudis want control of the oil market back, and they are lowering prices to weed out the high cost producers. But I found a western producer with even lower costs per barrel than the Saudis. That’s right—someone who beat them at their own game.  Just like the Saudis, this company...
Crescent Point’s Torquay Discovery Reignites Southeast Saskatchewan Just when you thought The Bakken couldn’t get any better—it does. Oil producers are now “cracking the code” on the Torquay, or Three Forks formation below the Bakken, and coming up with incredible economics—these wells are paying back in only seven months. This news has completely re-invigorated the Canadian side of the Bakken. And on the US side, the Three Forks is causing industry to leap-frog estimates...
North America's Hottest Oil Play Just Got Bigger The Bakken oil play is already one of the largest onshore oil discoveries in North America in decades. But producers in both Canada and the US are still pushing out the “generally accepted” boundaries of the play – mostly to the west, into...
In a bull market when energy stocks are flying and everybody is making money—like the first eight months of 2014—investors don’t care about what I’m going to tell you now. It would have been a waste of my time to write this story in January 2014. But now it’s different; everybody...
WHY DOES RICK SOUND SO HAPPY IN THIS ENERGY MARKET? INTERVIEW WITH RICK RULE, SPROTT US HOLDINGS INC. Rick Rule is a naturally happy guy, despite being immersed in one of the most depressed parts of the economy right now.  I’ve known Rick for almost two decades, and it was his...