What’s next for Energy

By Robert Rapier • August 12, 2013

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Jeffrey Reese

08/12/13 ‐ 9:34pm ET August 12, 2013 at 9:34pm ET

Not a useful video…no detail…just an introduction to what he will talk about.

John E Bartlett

09/28/13 ‐ 11:22am ET September 28, 2013 at 11:22am ET

This brief talk introduction sounds like the presentation would be very interesting- why not let your subscribers see it!

Jerry Knueven

09/29/13 ‐ 5:10pm ET September 29, 2013 at 5:10pm ET

i feel like the vido was cut short. where’s the beef?

Ken Wiederhorn

10/01/13 ‐ 1:52pm ET October 1, 2013 at 1:52pm ET

Also find it strange to post this short video which promises more than it delivers. As for the comments here – and the lack of response – as a subscriber of several years I’ve never been overly impressed by the response time to these posts. As of this writing there are no responses to a legitimate question: why is this video here?

Perhaps it would be better to eliminate areas where subscribers are invited to post and rely entirely on the web Q&A’s.

On another note – I very much like the new analysts and their fresh points of view. It would be great to see the rest of Rapier’s presentation in order to get to know him better. Same is true for Greenwald, etc..

Igor Greenwald

10/01/13 ‐ 3:08pm ET October 1, 2013 at 3:08pm ET

I would like to thank everyone who’s commented on this thread for their comments and let you know that we’re working on getting you more useful video, whether it’s more of Robert’s recent presentation or other reports.

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Robert Rapier

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It's hard to imagine anyone better suited to covering the energy-investment waterfront than Robert Rapier.

Robert is no armchair analyst—he has two decades of in-the-trenches experience in a wide range of fossil fuel and biofuel technologies, including refining, natural gas production, gas-to-liquids, ethanol production and butanol production.

During a six-year stretch at ConocoPhillips, Robert ran a team of engineers in Scotland working on oil and gas projects in the North Sea.

For two years, Robert was an efficiency expert in a Texas petrochemical plant. The process changes he implemented saved the facility $9 million a year. He later worked as the Engineering Director for a Dutch environmental-technology company and provided engineering support for a Chinese facility the company was constructing.

Robert was also a butanol engineer in Germany for the Celanese Corporation, where he designed a novel butanol unit that cut production costs by $5 million per year.

In all, Robert has spent more than a dozen years working on liquid fuels technologies. Along the way he's picked up five patents, including one for a breakthrough way to convert ethane into ethylene (U.S. Patent 7,074,977).

Now, in addition to guiding readers to timely investments in Utility Forecaster and Rapier's Income Accelerator, Robert travels the world evaluating startup energy companies for deep-pocketed investors. After grilling management and assessing the technology on-site, he makes a go/no-go investment decision. His wealthy private investors and hedge fund backers trust him to make the right choice for the same reason we do: his vast real-world experience in just about every facet of the energy industry. If Robert votes thumbs-up, millions of dollars flow into these cutting-edge outfits.

Robert earned his master of science in chemical engineering and a bachelor of science in chemistry and mathematics (double major) at Texas A&M University. He tells us he was "this close" to finishing his Ph.D. before he decided he was having a lot more fun making money in energy stocks.

A prolific writer, Robert's articles have appeared in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor -- and he has been a featured expert on 60 Minutes and The History Channel. His new book, Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil (Apress, 2012), helps investors sort through doom and gloom, hype and misinformation to understand the true costs, benefits and trade-offs for each of our major energy options.

In what little spare time he has left, Robert consults for a number of energy projects, including biodiesel, ethanol, butanol and biomass gasification facilities.