Today’s buyout of Ryland Oil (RYL-TSX) by Crescent Point Energy (CPG-TSX) is a good example of how large “resource plays” can get valued by investors.  CPG paid $121.8 million, or roughly $0.45/share for Ryland. But back in 2006, when the mania of the emerging Bakken oil play in North Dakota and...
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Few investors realize that one sector of the heavy oil market is the most profitable oil in all of North America – it’s called cold flow heavy oil.  Think of it as light heavy oil, thick and gooey enough that it needs a pump to get out of the ground, but...
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by Keith Schaefer, Editor, Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin June 15, 2010 A group of natural gas producers in North America are discovering the secret sauce to profits, and as a result many of them are outperforming their peers. It’s called “wet gas” or “liquid rich gas” or “natural gas liquids” or “NGL”, but any way...
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Investors who are looking to the XNG:NYSE Natural Gas Index to tell them the future of  natural gas prices could be making a costly mistake. XNG:NYSE – which tracks large cap companies in the US natural gas industry – has been heading up for 12 months – in the directly opposite direction...
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