ETFs, or Exchange Traded Funds, not only track the price of oil, but they can actually provide clues as to where the oil price is going. I'll show you how to read their charts, and show you the ETF that I think most accurately follows and even warns investors...
Will the US oilpatch get flooded with Canadian juniors looking to build and sell production to the new Canadian energy income trusts? Trusts are now allowed in Canada again – but with foreign assets.
After all, energy income trusts in Canada completely transformed the way business was done in the junior markets...
Editor's Note: Today's story is contributed by Dennis and Eric Hoesgen of Hoesgen Investment Partners and Canaccord Wealth Management. In this Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin-exclusive report, the Hoesgen brothers reveal what could be a comeback in income trusts (investment vehicles that aim to provide steady quarterly or monthly...
In my last story – Investing in Energy Services Stocks -- I explained why the entire energy services industry should see rising revenue and profits over the next few years.
These are the companies in major demand as the shale revolution continues.
Now let's look at the services sub-group that's really...
The rapid increase in horizontal drilling and the shale revolution in the energy sector is re-defining the need and demand for North American energy services companies.
This has created a work backlog that has the entire industry – drillers, fracking companies, fluid specialists, water services - stretched to the limit,...
Last week, Encana Corp. (TSX-ECA) came out and revealed itself as the huge mystery buyer of Duvernay rights in Alberta, spending $300 million on land acquisition in the first quarter alone.
It’s a big number considering there are only two published drill holes into the Duvernay – and neither one...
Old oil fields never die. They just get better with age.
It's a time-worn cliche, but in the case of Alberta's Duvernay shale, it may be the best example yet.
By now everybody has heard about the "shale revolution" and how it's set to dramatically change the energy landscape.
And beyond a...
As I explained in Part 1: Atlantic Canada Oil Shale Projects, we're seeing a shale revolution all over the world right now… from the juniors to the seniors.
And we're seeing this increasingly in all-but-forgotten plays. Take the Green Point play, for example. The management team at Shoal Point...