Saskatchewan: A Gold Mine for Uranium By Marin Katusa, Casey’s Energy Report Mining is a risky business and accidents happen. But when your mine is the world’s largest uranium deposit, fourth largest copper deposit, and fifth largest gold deposit, an accident can cost a little bit more than the average. Something BHP Billiton found out [...]

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The energy-rich, former Soviet republic has some of the largest oil and gas reserves in the Caspian Sea basin, producing 1.43 million barrels per day (bbl/day) in 2008. And as the giant Tengiz and Karachaganak fields are developed further, an additional 1.5 million bbl/day will be coming off the production line.
With the country holding 3% of the world’s proven oil reserves and the majority of its Caspian Sea holdings still unexploited, it’s no wonder oil companies – both major and minor – are flocking to it like moths to a flame.

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Has the Gulf Spill Opened Pandora’s Box for Obama? By Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Strategist, Casey’s Energy ReportThe White House might be gaping in shock that the U.S. federal court overturned the six-month drilling moratorium, but it really isn’t all that surprising. Amid the finger pointing and political posturing, the Obama administration seems to have [...]

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The Secret to Finding Winning Energy Stocks By Marin Katusa, Chief Investment Strategist, Casey Research Energy TeamAs the world hesitantly emerges from recession, the one question that seems to be on the lips of investors everywhere is: what’s next? As the tragedy continues to unfold in the Gulf of Mexico, with no fix in sight, [...]

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What do search engines and wind energy have in common? That’s the question a lot of investors were asking earlier this month, when Google made an almost US$40 million investment into NextEra Energy Resources, a North Dakota wind energy firm. The simple answer: more than you think.
It’s not surprising that the Internet search-engine superstar needs energy. Companies like Google own massive computer frameworks, known as server farms, to store all that digital data floating around in cyberspace. While Google is quite hush-hush about how many computers it owns, estimates put it at about 1,000,000 servers (almost 2% of the world total), and an enormous amount of power is needed to keep them running constantly. And as cyber-information grows – almost 24 hours of video footage is uploaded onto YouTube every minute – more and more computers are required to store and distribute it.

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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.
North America has already seen the stampede of companies staking their territories and is now in the next phase: consolidation. However, buying into the American industry giants now, where even a major strike creates only a blip in share price, is like catching a ship that’s left the harbor.

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Imagine the price of gold jumping to $1,500 overnight… what would that do to the price of junior mining companies? That’s what just happened to the price of coal – it jumped 38% in one day!

Coal is dirty, it’s dusty, and it sends environmentalists into a tizzy. It’s also the most rapidly growing fuel source in the world, it’s broadly distributed with almost 70 countries having economically recoverable resources, and the energy found in it still exceeds that in all other fossil fuels combined.

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Is President Obama’s goal for the United States Energy Independence or just more political pork for people like Al Gore and job losses for the coal mines he wants to shut down? Obama feels government intervention in the form of tax credits and tax penalties is a “market based” approach. Any economics 101 student knows [...]

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The biggest economic shift of our time is under way.

Cheap and easy oil is gone for good. And given our addiction to low-cost oil, the results are about to put the squeeze on your pocket book.

Increasing prices will have a huge effect on every aspect of your life, from the price of your food, to how much you’ll pay at the gas pump, to the cost of heating and cooling your home.

Nearly everything in our lives revolves around oil.

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Is the price of oil going up? Is it going down because the economy is in the tank (pun intended)? Experts differ. Peak oil, I feel, is real. Billions of people on this planet will drastically increase their usage of petroleum products, even if they do drive electric cars. Let’s hear how we can profit [...]

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