Category: Natural Gas
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Saturday, May 08, 2010
Gazprom vs Shalegas: The victory of the energy colossus / Commodities / Natural Gas
Maninder Batra writes: Shale gas has been touted by the western media as a savior for the West and a silver bullet against Gazprom .In the past few years, due to extreme increase in prices of natural gas prices and betterment of Hydraulic fracturing ,Shale gas became economical .If we were to believe the western media hype and propaganda ,Shale Gas would ruin Gazprom ,a scenario which the anti-russian western media loves to drool over.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Urgent: Don’t Make This Dangerous Natural Gas Stocks Investing Mistake / Commodities / Natural Gas
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 as UNG:NYSE, the high profile ETF that tracks the price of natural gas. It has been going down for 12 months, and set a new 52 week low late last week.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Huge Bets Against Natural Gas... Me? I'm Buying! / Commodities / Natural Gas
I've made the most money in my investment career doing one simple thing: Buying what's cheap and hated.
The cheaper, and the more hated, the better the returns.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Shale Natural Gas Miracle Pill or Empty Promise? / Commodities / Natural Gas
As you may be aware, over the past few weeks, much has been made of this unconventional source of energy. Some fine publications have even called shale gas a ‘game changer’ and most people are now convinced that shale gas has made ‘Peak Oil’ irrelevant. So, is shale gas really the miracle pill or is it yet another empty promise from a desperate industry?
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Shale Natural Gas, Europe Shakes Its Fist at Russian Energy Hegemony / Commodities / Natural Gas
Marin Katusa, Senior Market Strategist, Casey’s Energy Report writes: The latest buzzword on investors’ lips is shale, and it’s everywhere. Shale gas production is rapidly growing, and the domino effect of unconventional gas development on the global energy market is staggering.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
The Safest, High-Income Way to Buy Natural Gas / Commodities / Natural Gas
Tom Dyson writes: You probably already know there's a phenomenal investment opportunity in natural gas right now. But here's the background...
Natural gas is an extremely useful fuel. In 500 BC, the Chinese used natural gas to turn seawater into drinking water. In Victorian England, they used it to power streetlights. When I traveled around Asia back in August 2008, I found them using natural gas to fuel taxis. And in Canada, they run their busses on natural gas.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Floating Alternative to Nabucco Natural Gas Pipeline Moving Toward Implementation / Commodities / Natural Gas
Romania, Azerbaijan, and Georgia on April 13, 2010, took a major step toward the implementation of a substitute energy distribution network to substitute for the US-backed Nabucco strategic gas pipeline complex.
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Natural Gas Support Holding – Recovery Scope? / Commodities / Natural Gas
The initial recovery in NYMEX Natural Gas from a 2009 low point came to a halt early this year, on the continuation chart. Subsequent pullback has now encountered interesting support, offering the chance for recovery, but bulls still await the required signals.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Natural Gas Futures Support Potential for Long Term Reversal of “UNG” / Commodities / Natural Gas
Several weeks ago autobottrading.com spoke of the natural gas sector and the possibility that a major trend change was potentially setting up for the commodity. Natural Gas futures had reached long term support, setting up a sector call similar to our encouragement to get long Crude when it was trading in the mid to high $30’s last year. We warned in the March 13th post, of the likelihood of a sharp spike lower into potential support at $3.75 and then the potential of a powerful trend changing reversal. On April 1st, May natural Gas had powerful rally which on the daily chart reflects the potency of the longest time series support we have mentioned over the last several weeks.
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
Nord Stream Natural Gas Pipeline Conquers Europe / Commodities / Natural Gas
Dmitry Medvedev will attend the ceremony to celebrate the beginning of the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline in the city of Vybord. Officials representing other countries in the project will take part in the event too.
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Friday, April 09, 2010
Natural Gas, The Last Cheap Commodity Left / Commodities / Natural Gas
Matt Badiali writes: Your job just got a lot harder.
If you're a commodity investor, you've had a pretty good year. Over the last 12 months, in my S&A Resource Report portfolio, I've recommended 13 stocks that have gained 10%-99%, three stocks that have gained 100%-200%, and one stock that's up an incredible 460%.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
A Floating Alternative to Nabucco Undercuts Potential Disruptions to EU Energy Supplies / Politics / Natural Gas
In late February 2010, Romania, Azerbaijan, and Georgia finalized an agreement on the direct export of Azerbaijani natural gas to Romania. This has profound ramifications for halting Turkey’s ability to hold the EU hostage to energy supplies via Turkey, and offers far more rapid easing of European energy pressures.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 01, 2010
The Case for Natural Gas Investing / Commodities / Natural Gas
Many analysts say that there still isn't enough demand for natural gas to make it a smart investment opportunity. John Licata, chief investment strategist at Blue Phoenix Inc., disagrees. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, John explains why he thinks that by year-end natural gas could be the place for investors to be.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
USA and Europe Do Not Need Russian Natural Gas Anymore / Commodities / Natural Gas
Russia has virtually lost the sales market for its natural gas in the United States of America and runs risks of losing its positions in Europe at this point too. Sergey Dontsov, Deputy Minister for Nature of the Russian Federation, said that the reason for such export failures is about the delays in the development of the Shtokman gas deposit in the Barents Sea.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Shale Gas Going Global – An Interview with Dave Forest / Commodities / Natural Gas
Dave Forest and I are philosophically aligned. Dave writes “Pierce Points” everyday (and I read it every day) and he is a former Casey Energy newsletter editor. We’ve started sharing ideas and a key one for both of us is that we see huge shareholder wealth being created for oil and gas investors as the new technologies now used in North America – horizontal drilling and fracking – get exported around the world.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
An Extreme Investment Profit Opportunity in Oil and Natural Gas / Commodities / Natural Gas
The last time this happened, investors had the chance to pocket 83% gains in about four months time.
They could have done it safely. This has nothing to do with the overall market direction.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Iran’s Natural Gas Riches / Politics / Natural Gas
The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran's South Pars gas field could be both a harbinger and explanation of much wider geopolitical developments.
First of all, the $5 billion project - signed last year after years of foot dragging by western energy giants Total and Shell under the shadow of US-led sanctions - reveals the main arterial system for future world energy supply and demand.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Natural Gas ETF/ETN, A Small Example of Acceptable Fraud / Commodities / Natural Gas
I have been keeping an eye on natural gas and I love the way the chart looks right now for a trade. But trying to find a way to play it without going into the futures market exposes the problems with our current financial markets. The fraud is too prevalent and the instruments are too opaque. I don't want to invest in natural gas stocks, but rather I want to invest in natural gas itself as a trade.
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
Yemen’s Push Into the Natural Gas Sector Fails to Stimulate Excitement, Raises Disturbing Questions / Commodities / Natural Gas
With Yemen’s oil revenues plunging, the government’s push into the gas market seemed like an economic saving grace for a state wracked by poverty and terrorism, but analysts warn more thought should be given to carving out the country's post-petroleum era.
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
Natural Gas Trumps Gold's Comeback... / Commodities / Natural Gas
In our report published November 20th, 2009, we recommended immediate action be taken regarding gold positions in general and in a particularly profitable, zero premium trade in silver that we had prescribed several weeks prior. In the face of a steadily rising bullion price we said the following:
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