From mature conventional fields to established and emerging shale oil plays, the Permian Basin offers something for exploration and production firms of all types.
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have enabled producers to extract oil trapped in the Bakken Shale and other “tight” rock formations. Here’s a quick survey of two of Canada’s biggest tight oil plays.
Exploration and production firms are ramping up activity in oil-rich US shale plays. Here’s how to profit.
The Macondo spill may have slowed US offshore drilling activity, but operators in the nation’s emerging and established shale-oil plays are ramping up production.
Oil refining is one of the most important business segments in the energy industry, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood. Here’s how to separate the value traps from the value plays.
Big Oils are a classic value proposition at current prices; now is the time to go shopping.
Fundamentals suggest that now is the time to buy shares of tanker companies.
Some have argued that the recent decline in oil prices represents an abnormal trading pattern or the beginning of a bear market in oil. But past experience doesn’t support that conclusion.
The spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an environmental disaster.But there are few alternatives to deepwater oil.
Elliott Gue, Editor of Personal Finance, The Energy Strategist and Stocks on the Run, talks about what investors need to know about the refining industry.
