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By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor An outpouring of political tension around the globe raised concerns about oil supply, pushing oil prices up as much as $3.15 a barrel Friday, close to its all-time peak of $119.90 a barrel set last Tuesday. In the North Sea, the Forties Pipeline System, a major transportation network that pumps […]
Big Oil Digs Deep to Solve a Growing Problem: Where Will Tomorrow's Oil Come From?
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the world's leading petroleum exporter. Officially, it has reserves of about 260 billion barrels of crude oil - approximately 24% of the world's total proven petroleum reserves. But Saudi Arabia has a problem. And it's the same one that every oil-producing nation will face someday: […]
Expert Support Increases for Money Morning's Prediction That Oil Prices Could Approach $200 a Barrel
By William Patalon IIIExecutive EditorMoney Morning/The Money Map Report Global Oil experts continue to climb aboard the Money Morning bandwagon. It was back in mid-December, when crude oil was trading at $90 a barrel, that Money Morning Investment Director Keith Fitz-Gerald first publicly predicted that petroleum prices would reach $187 a barrel within three years. […]
As Oil Prices Hit Another Record High, Consider These Three Ways to Profit From This Long-Term Gusher
By Martin HutchinsonContributing Editor Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a few months ago that if the United States invades Iran, we could expect to see oil at $200 a barrel. With oil already approaching the $120 mark, we may get there even without invading Iran. [Perhaps President Chavez could be tempted out of his chaos-causing […]
Oil Prices Hit Another Record High with Gasoline Close Behind
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor The price of oil surged to another record high yesterday (Monday) as oil ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) again resisted pressure to increase output. "Any increase in production now will not have an impact on prices because there is a balance between supply and demand," OPEC […]
A Weak Dollar and Supply Concerns Carry Oil to Another Record High
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor Oil sailed to a fresh record Tuesday as the dollar's continued weakness made an already fashionable retreat into oil all the more appealing. The price of light, sweet crude for May delivery settled at a record $113.79 a barrel after touching a new trading high of $113.99 a barrel in […]
One Sure-Fire Sign That Gas Prices are Heading Higher
By Keith Fitz-GeraldInvestment DirectorMoney Morning/The Money Map Report The U.S. Energy Department said earlier this week that it expects average monthly gasoline prices to peak at $3.60 a gallon this spring, since the high prices will serve to curb demand. For investors who are tired of feeling like they've been mugged every time they fill […]
Oil Prices Surge After Basra Bombings
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor After surging nearly $5 Wednesday, light, sweet crude for May delivery rose as much as $2.05 to $107.95 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday (Thursday) as concerns about violence in Iraq compounded the effect of supply concerns. A bomb exploded at the Zubair-1 pipeline in Basra, which […]
Three Ways to Play Money Morning's Prediction That Oil Prices Will Reach $187 a Barrel
By William Patalon IIIExecutive EditorMoney Morning/The Money Map Report A plummeting greenback, inflationary fears fanned by the U.S. central bank and soaring global demand are combining to fuel a record advance in crude oil prices. But the market madness of recent days is just the start. Crude oil prices will hit $187 a barrel within […]
While There's Action in Oil Stocks, There's Real Energy in Coal Shares
By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Oil prices above $100 per barrel have made the headlines recently, and investment advisors have competed with each other in recommending oil investments. But here's some inside insight from the shrewdest investing pros: The true energy play is an energy source whose price has risen more than oil in the […]
Gazprom Drills $70 Billion into Arctic Exploration, Plans to Double Crude Production by 2020
By Mike Caggeso Associate Editor Gazprom Neft OAO (OTC:GZPFY) - Russia's largest company and the world's largest producer of natural gas - plans to double its crude production by 2020 and spend $70 billion developing Arctic fields, Chief Executive Officer Alexander Dyukov told Moscow-based newspaper Kommersant. Dyukov didn't specify how the company plans to raise […]
Kazakhstan Squeezes the Last Drop Out of Eni
By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor After months of discussion and management restructuring, work at one of the world's largest oil fields is set to continue. Under the terms of a new agreement Eni S.p.A (E), the Italian oil company, will cede its control over operations at the Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan's state oil […]
Why the President's Push for Lower Oil Prices is Nothing But a Pipe Dream
By Keith Fitz-Gerald Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report Every president has a defining moment when the American people, and indeed the world, recognize that he's badly out of touch with some aspect of reality. I can't help but think that President George W. Bush ["Dubya"] has just had his moment as I watch […]
Investors Will Benefit From New Plan to Have the United States and China Cooperate in Curbing Oil Speculation
By Keith Fitz-Gerald Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report Here's a headline investors probably never expected to see: The United States and China have agreed to cooperate on the management of the two countries' strategic oil reserves. We don't know whether to find this story - first reported by China's state-run Xinhua News Service […]
Outlook 2008: Continued Supply Crunches Will Add a "Glow" to Uranium Stocks
Editor's Note: This is the Sixth Installment of an Ongoing Series Highlighting the Global Investing Outlook for 2008 By Don Miller Contributing Writer Of all the commodities to ride the volatile global roller coaster in 2007, uranium had the wildest ride. Overall, it gained 28% for the year. But that seemingly simple statistic masks a […]