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Bad News for Pipelines – Good News for Rail

Commodity Trends, Oil / By Guest Contributor

One of the first oil pipelines originated in the 1860s, when the Oil Transport Association constructed a wrought iron pipeline from an oil field in Pennsylvania to a railroad station 6 miles away. The pipeline was only 2 inches in diameter. Pipelines are generally more economical than shipping by railroad. But they have more regulatory hurdles. With the recent problems with getting approval for the Keystone XL pipeline, rail transportation has been growing.

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Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Energy Firms in Argentina

Leave a Comment / Energy, Government, Oil / By Guest Contributor

Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Energy Firms in Argentina – Interview with Sam Logan Angering Spain by seizing and nationalizing a majority of Repsol’s shares in YPF and ramping up the rhetoric over the Falkland Islands as exploration deals promise to make the territory a major oil player overnight, Argentina is making

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How is the Keystone XL Pipeline Progressing?

1 Comment / Government, Oil / By OilPrice.com

How is the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Progressing? Four and a half years of studies and five failed votes in the House later, exactly where are we with the Keystone XL Oil pipeline? Stuck on the US-Canadian border where it is likely to remain until mid-2013 despite the headline-grabbing issuance of one of three permits to

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Iran Finds Oil in Caspian

2 Comments / Oil / By Guest Contributor

OIL: Iran Hunting for Dragons in the Caspian Sea By. Daniel Graeber of Oilprice.com Iran announced this week that it’s made its first oil discovery in the Caspian Sea in more than 100 years. The semiofficial Fars News Agency reports the find, in ultradeep waters, may hold the equivalent of 7 percent of the country’s

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The Making of Kurdistan: Oil, Investment and a Turkish Gamble

1 Comment / Investing, Oil / By Guest Contributor

They say, “politics makes strange bedfellows” and nowhere is that more apparent than in the middle east. Oil and the massive investment returns it can bring can turn friends into enemies and enemies into friends in rather short order. Up until recently Turkey has been at odds with the Kurds in Northern Iraq but all that is

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Oil Prices < $40/Barrel?

6 Comments / Commodity Trends, Oil / By Casey Research

Marin Katusa vs. Porter Stansberry on Oil Prices At the latest Casey Research conference, respected investment analyst Porter Stansberry stood at the podium and predicted that the price of oil will fall below US$40 per barrel within the next 12 months. Part of his reasoning revolves around the impact that the shale gas revolution has

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The Pesky Details of Prospectus Disclosure

Leave a Comment / Investing, Oil / By Casey Research

By Vedran Vuk, Casey Research In the infamous case of the Goldman Sachs Abacus 2007 AC-1 fund, it doesn’t take a whole lot to figure out the wrongdoing. Paulson & Co., a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, helped select the mortgage-backed securities held by Abacus while at the same time, Paulson was planning on shorting it. This

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Iran Says “Gold Is Money”

1 Comment / Economic Trends, Gold, Oil / By Casey Research

By Louis James, Casey Research Economic crises signal that the current system isn’t working as expected and needs improvement. When it comes to monetary systems, questioning their fundamentals can lead to doubts about whether the preferred medium of exchange will continue to be preferred for long. The large-scale whirlwind of economic trouble around the globe

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Natgas Down, Opportunity Up

Leave a Comment / Energy / By Casey Research

By Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Investment Strategist, Casey Research The energy market is a complex beast, its many parts interconnected through a multitude of linkages. When one part fails, the entire system reacts: certain linkages are burdened with extra stress, while other components sit idle. Only by studying the entire machine can one understand the

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Trying to Eliminate Subsidies is a Losing Battle

Leave a Comment / Government / By Casey Research

There is an old story about a rich gentleman who was walking down the street one day when he comes upon a homeless man. The rich man felt pity for the man and decided to help him. He asked the homeless man how much he collected in a good day. The homeless man replied $50.

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