Energy Prospectus

It is nice to see the price of oil rally into today's close. This may be why, although fundamentally this has nothing to do with oil supply. - Dan NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The federal official leading the Gulf oil spill cleanup said Friday a new containment cap and an additional ship collecting oil could...

They are by far the largest oil producing country on the planet. According to the Oil and Gas Journal: Saudi Arabia contains approximately 264 billion barrels of proven oil reserves amounting to around one-fifth of proven, conventional world oil reserves. Although Saudi Arabia has around 100 major o...

By Adveith Nair & Krishna N. Das BANGALORE, July 8 (Reuters) - Private equity firms keen to invest in the energy sector will likely follow global oil majors into North American shale plays, eyeing the premium they can earn by disposing of the assets sooner. Given the surging prices of shale asse...

I'd like your thoughts on this concept. I believe the governments recent actions are almost like they are at war with capitalism. This idea would help the working man and woman. Fact: It takes the taxes paid by three private sector workers to pay the salary of one government worker making the same s...

Check out my comments on PetroBank in our "Sweet 16 Detailed Update" which is available to our Premium Members under our Sweet 16 Tab on the website. My Net Income and Cash Flow forcast is also available. If you get my newsletter you know what I think about PetroBank. I have a call in to t...

Comstock Resources (CRK) is a former Sweet 16 member which I dropped for 2010 since I wanted to heavily weight the portfolio to oil. We did very well on CRK in 2007 and 2008. It is a first class company. CRK is back on my Watch List so I will be completing a Company Profile on it soon. Company Profi...

Working gas in storage was 2,762 Bcf as of Friday, July 2, 2010, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 78 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 23 Bcf less than last year at this time and 285 Bcf above the 5-year average of 2,477 Bcf. Storage report next week will include s...

I plan to take a very hard look at DNR when 2nd quarter results come out. This will be our first look at the post-merger company. DNR has a great long-term plan and they have financial flexibility. I'm sure they will clarify a lot of this stuff for us in their Q2 press release and the CC that follow...

Article below is from Seeking Alpha article posted July 7. The MC 941 #3 well is very important to ATPG's near-term future. My guess now is that well will not be on-line until August. This well is not under the moritorium. If it comes on at 6,000 to 8,000 bopd as expected it should give ATPG the nec...

OPEC has a lot more control over oil prices today. More accurately, Saudi Arabia has total control. IMO if oil dips below $70/bbl they will move to reduce supply. With the Gulf of Mexico shut down by Obama the non-OPEC supply has lost yet one more of its few areas with potential growth. That said, o...