How the Oil Price Could Affect Saudi Arabia’s Energy Dominance
Despite the fragile state of the global economy, and growing production in the US, the oil price has remained stubbornly high this year. The price of a barrel of Brent crude is roughly where it was at...
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How the Global Oil Grab Affects You…
How much oil does it take to be part of the modern world? Today, per capita oil use in the U.S. is about 22 barrels per year and 24 barrels in Canada. That’s how we get our so-called ‘non-negotiable...
View ArticleWhat Will Happen to Oil and Gas Prices in 2013?
The US energy sector is undergoing a rapid change. It’s no exaggeration to describe it as a revolution. The nation’s ability to get at once-inaccessible shale oil and gas has sent energy production...
View ArticleThere’s Money to Be Made in US Oil
Protesters descended upon Washington, DC, recently. They visited our nation’s control centre to oppose construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, from Alberta to the Gulf Coast. At a higher level,...
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A Big Price Change Brewing in the Crude Oil Market
After a two-month rise, the oil price has pulled back. On 12 November last year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) declared that, thanks to ‘fracking’ – blasting dense underground rocks apart to...
View ArticleYour ‘Cheat-Sheet’ For Coming Oil Prices
Today I want to answer a question that I’ve heard from more than one reader about the North American oil patch, and what it’s doing to world markets. Consider this your cheat sheet. Doubtless, you’ve...
View ArticleAfter the Oil Pull Back, Now What?
Precious metals, energy and commodities recently hit a rough patch. But will these low ‘pullback’ prices last forever? Even in the face of what seems (to me) as an extreme wave of inflation rushing...
View ArticleCash in on the Second Great American Oil Rush: with Shale
On 10 January 1901, the first oil ‘gusher’ erupted from a well in Beaumont, Texas. It spewed 80,000 barrels of oil in a day, at a time when 50 barrels was considered a lot. The production of this one...
View ArticleA Total Overhaul of the Global Oil Patch
John Wooden – the late, great UCLA basketball coach – once said, ‘Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.‘ With coach Wooden’s advice in mind, let’s think...
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A New Spin to the Old Oil War
One of the main stories not being told about today’s oil market is the next round of turbulence set for the Middle East. It’s the oil war scenario, but with a new spin. Last year when Byron King and I...
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How Rising Oil Prices Could Derail the Global Economy
The price of oil is, perhaps, the single most important price in the world. The cost of almost everything we do at home, at work and at play is affected by it. Cheap oil made much of the economic...
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Why Oil Could be the One Commodity to Defy the Doom…
There’s always some corner of the market that’s making money for investors. Even in the tough times, when all the ink seems to be in the red, you can still track down a trade with a bit of good...
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On the Hunt for the Next Great Elephant Oilfield
There’s no law in the market that oil and gold have to move together. But when they begin to diverge in a big way, like now, it pays to wonder why. Maybe BHP has the answer. It’s put Texas tea on the...
View ArticleWhat if the Price of Oil Collapses This Year?
Could the price of oil fall to $50? Jan Stuart and Stefan Revielle of Credit Suisse think so. Just think about the implications here: it would touch just about every industry on the planet; many...
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Rising Oil Prices Are All About Egypt…Or so Some People Say
The price of oil is rising lately, due to ‘events in Egypt’, as the saying goes. Well, yes. Despite being home to modest oil output with zero net oil exports, Egypt owns the Suez Canal. Thus,...
View ArticleHow to Invest Around the Burning Middle East
‘Invest in what?’ is the eternal question. Well, oil and precious metal prices have strengthened recently. Is this a revival of previous long-term uptrends? Is something fundamental going on with hard,...
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How To Invest Ahead of the Oil Price Melt-Up
The recent conflict in Syria is fanning flames across the entire Middle East. It’s another tragic, gruesome aspect of the ‘Oil Wars‘ scenario that I’ve developed in these pages over the past few years....
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The Interconnectedness of Oil, Money and Gold
‘There are no dry holes,’ the man said. ‘Every well produces good oil and pays for itself.’ That’s what I learned during a talk with an oil company executive not long ago. The man’s operations are...
View ArticleLook, Another ‘Crisis’ That Won’t Hurt Energy Stocks
If the day ends in a ‘y’, you can be sure there will be another crisis to hit the energy markets. The latest crisis is Iraq. A bunch of Islamist militants are seeking to take over the country. That...
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Peak Oil Just Got Pushed Back Again…
‘It’s running out.’ ‘There will soon be none left.’ ‘The world is heading for disaster.’ ‘Peak oil is upon us.’ It’s a nice, if somewhat scary idea. It’s the idea that the world is about to run out of...
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