Category: Energy Resources
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, May 01, 2014
The "Holy Grail" of Energy Investing Is Going to Make You – and Your Grandchildren – Rich / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Storage has long been one of energy's biggest "Holy Grails." It holds the key to every significant move into smart grids.
The reason is pretty simple: If energy cannot be stored, it is lost. Even transferring it from one type of energy to another is of little consequence unless you can reverse the erosion in the entire system.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Obama’s Secret Pipeline More Sensitive than Keystone XL / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Marin_Katusa
Isn’t it odd that an 800-mile pipeline that runs across environmentally sensitive land has been permitted without any mention in the media? Not a word about it from President Obama either.
Obama’s Secret Pipeline will be built over land that’s much more sensitive than that of the Keystone XL pipeline, which gets nothing but front-page coverage. It will actually be 17% (six inches) larger in diameter than Keystone XL (36 inches) and it will transport natural gas, not oil.
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Friday, April 25, 2014
Putin is Losing Eastern European Energy Gamble / Politics / Energy Resources
By: OilPrice_Com
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn't think the European community can do without the natural gas it gets from energy monopoly Gazprom. With a Russian economy starting to decline, however, it may be Gazprom that's too strongly interconnected to the European market to break free.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 24, 2014
This is the Next “Big Thing” in Energy / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Storage has long been one of energy’s biggest “Holy Grails.” It holds the key to every significant move into smart grids.
The reason is pretty simple: If energy cannot be stored, it is lost. Even transferring it from one type of energy to another is of little consequence unless you can reverse the erosion in the entire system.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Why Energy is Catching the Stock Market's Eye / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Frank_Holmes
Over the last month the energy sector has outperformed the market, and as you can see in the chart below, has done so by 6.5 percent. Year-to-date the sector is beating the S&P 500 Index by over 3 percent.
In a spectacularly performing market during 2013, energy lacked some of the incredible performance seen throughout the other sectors, but recently it has turned up, catching the attention of the market yet again.
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Russia Invaded Crimea and These US Energy Companies Made a Killing / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: The_Energy_Report
Don't put all your investments in one stock, warns S&A Resource Report Editor Matt Badiali. In this interview with The Energy Report, he shares a basket of companies that are extracting higher margins with ever-evolving shale drilling methods. Find out about his top tenbagger opportunities at home, in the so-called new science and factory shales, as well as his favorites in the far reaches of Kurdistan, where an eventual takeover draft looks likely.
The Energy Report: In a recent Daily Resource Update, you wrote a piece called, "Here's How Russia's Invasion of Crimea Could Benefit Some U.S. Oil Companies," and it wasn't the oil producing companies I assumed from the headline. Tell us, what companies could benefit.
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Ronald Reagan's Fear Of Energy Dependence On The Evil Empire / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
Destroy the Evil Empire
As a Hollywood B-movie actor Ronald Reagan never made it, but as a New Age politician preaching New Age economics he was so popular that in 1984 Reagan was triumphantly re-elected to a second and last term as US president. From at latest 1982, his first administration beat the drum on Europe's dangerous energy dependence on the Evil Empire (which was also known as the USSR).
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Wednesday, April 09, 2014
The Great Unwashed American Energy Independence / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Raul_I_Meijer
The eurocrisis is over, the US Navy makes fuel from seawater, and America will be energy independent by 2037, according to the EIA. Boy, where do we begin? We’re getting flooded with an increasing amount of sheer nonsense wrapped in sheep’s clothing, and it’s hard to keep up. We not only live in a pretend economy, by now most of what we think we see isn’t really there at all. Indeed, there’s not even a there there anymore. Look, if you believe that the Navy can power its fleet with fuel made from seawater, you should probably know there’s a lot of gold in the oceans as well. Which means that you are potentially very wealthy. All you have to do is dig it out.
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
From Financial Subprime To Global Energy Subprime / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
Russian Sanctions and the Energy Subprime
The U.S. subprime crisis of 2008, although it was cast in stone by 2006-2007, was a dreadful surprise for political deciders. It sprang at them from the murky world of Wall Street's frenzied brewing of incomprehensible financial instruments with names like algos, swaps and derivatives. The crisis surged at them from outside, forcing deciders to make a panic recourse to more government debt and massive new borrowing, to shore up the financial economy and then the real economy.
Friday, April 04, 2014
The Energy “Crisis Curve” is Accelerating in a Dangerous Part of the World / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Sitting in a new land of plenty, Americans rarely notice disturbing energy trends elsewhere in the world.
But in the course of my global work, it’s impossible not to recognize there are serious energy shortages developing in other parts of the world.
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Thursday, April 03, 2014
The Government Foil to Energy Independence (and Profit) / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: As the rush to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) gathers steam, the Energy Advantage portfoliois primed for even bigger gains.
Make no mistake, LNG exports are now set to hand us one of the best investment opportunities of the decade.
That's a stunning reversal from just seven years ago, when everyone agreed the United States would be using LNG imports to meet 15% of its gas needs by 2020.
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Death Cross For European Energy / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
Play With the Toy Until its Breaks
Commentators have begun to focus on the “moving average” of European energy demand – always downward – as the moving average of European energy prices always rises. They easily conclude this is a death cross caused by the always-unrealistic energy policy and programs of the European Union. Making this more deadly, the “bearish outlook” for future energy supply in Europe is hard-baked into the policy mix and kept that way by political grandstanding and corporate inertia.
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Sunday, March 23, 2014
Will Russia Sanctions Backfire? / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Pravda
Russian "energy kings" Igor Sechin and Alexei Miller may be added to the list of persons whose European accounts will be frozen in light of the application of sanctions against Russia. In addition, the heads of the state companies fall under EU visa restrictions. What are the possible consequences of such pressure on the key players in the energy market for the EU?
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Will Ukraine Power Game Raise EU Energy Prices By 100%? / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Raul_I_Meijer
If I were a citizen of the European Union, especially of either the more eastern countries or of Britain, I’d be getting worried right now. I wouldn’t be so sure that what the Boys from Brussels are concocting is in my best interest. It’s one thing to hear the leadership declare that when it comes to gas, Putin needs Europe more than the other way around, but is that really true or is that war talk that may even be based primarily on a lack of knowledge and/or competence? And if the EU bluff pans out wrong, what are going to be the consequences for the people in the EU? As in: how fast and now much can prices rise?
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Putin's Energy Stranglehold On Europe / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
Outdated Geopolitical Musing
March 17, world stock exchanges from Moscow to New York and Frankfurt to Shanghai gave a whoop of joy at the symbolic-only prospect of European and American “hard hitting sanctions” being set against Russia for its Crimean action. The wait was over, the panic wasn't needed, at least not yet, so jobbers and traders got back to doing the thing they know best of all – talking up share prices. The media and press, however, did what they could to keep the story going, for example Garry Kasparov's raging in the 'Wall Street Journal', telling us that Putin “is another Saddam Hussein or Slobodan Milosevic” and should be treated by the West the same way. Kill him!
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Monday, March 17, 2014
Russia Eyes Crimea’s Oil and Gas Reserves / Politics / Energy Resources
By: OilPrice_Com
According to Reuters , Crimea may nationalize oil and gas assets within its borders belonging to Ukraine, and sell them off to Russia. Crimea’s Deputy Prime Minister hinted at the possibility that it would take control of Chornomorneftegaz, a Ukrainian state-owned enterprise, and then “privatize” it by selling it to Gazprom. “After nationalisation of the company we would openly take a decision - if a large investor, like Gazprom or others emerges - to carry out (privatisation),” Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliev said.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Recasting Europe's Energy Dependence On Russia / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
Recast As High Priced Energy
Speaking to the press, 9 March, the UK's Foreign minister William Hague said that "If no solution to this (energy dependence) can be found," European countries will "Recast their approach to energy and economic links with Russia over time". He was careful not to give any time lines, and certainly no investment cost estimates, more especially because plans so far mooted by officials in Europe's capitals, and from Brussels to Washington include larger imports of U.S. natural gas, reversing gas flows through pipelines from Western Europe back into Ukraine, and accelerated buying of more energy from countries other than Russia.
Sunday, March 02, 2014
Why The EU Will Not Resist Putin's Ukraine Military Coup / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
Gaseuro Recycling and Petrodollar Recycling
Much more discreet and more easily denied than also-denied petrodollar recycling operated by the US and Saudi Arabia, the EU's gaseuro and petroeuro recycling operated with Russia, especially by Germany, Italy and France but also by other EU states is starkly different to the “petrodollar system” because it is an economic win-win. Because of this, the EU after ritual blethering and cries of alarm will avoid operating economic, trade, monetary or other sanctions against Russia.
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Saturday, March 01, 2014
Investor Energy Potential in Ukraine's Troubles / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: [LONDON] As you read this, Marina and I will be in London for the annual energy consultations at Windsor Castle.
Now, if it seems like I'm spending far too much time traveling these days, you're right. But the truth is our trip to England is just the beginning... more is yet to come.
You see, most of the major new developments are no longer taking place in North America. The global energy sector is intensifying, and its importance has never been more striking than it is right now.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
What’s Waiting for Me at Windsor Castle / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Marina and I are off to another airport…
On Thursday, we’ll be flying “across the pond” for a stay at Windsor Castle outside London.
We’ll be there for the annual Windsor Energy Consultations. It’s a three-day event that promises to include some intense discussions with some of the most gifted energy minds in the world.
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