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Canadian Oil Companies Riding The Boom in New Zealand

May 7, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: new zealand energy, new zealand oil and gas, oil and gas new zealand, tag oil, tsx:tao, tsxv:nz

The kiwi oil and gas industry is ready for lift off and investors can be part of the action thanks to 2 Canadian oil companies offering a large exposure to massive amounts of oil and gas in high impact conventional basins and in highly prospective multiple shale packages. The beauty about New Zealand is its extensive energy infrastructure, its political stability, its attractive fiscal regime and a unique opportunity to develop world-class hydrocarbon resources in multiple underexplored onshore and offshore sedimentary basins.

New Zealand produces about ~55,000 barrels of oil per day exclusively from the Taranaki Basin with current demand … Continue Reading

Drilling Down Under: Canadian Oil Companies in Australia

April 17, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: australia oil and gas, australia oil and gas companies, australia oil companies, bengal energy, oil and gas Australia, oil Australia, petrofrontier, rodinia oil

There’s more to Australia than Kangaroos and Koalas such as 50 relatively under-explored sedimentary basins. Of those, only 12 are producing oil and gas while 4 have been confirmed to have non-commercial reserves. The remaining 34 basins have seen very little exploration if any as they have not been drilled to any significant extent.

Australia’s 30 on-shore drilling rigs are dwarfed by a fleet of more than 800 rigs in Canada. The bulk of petroleum spending in OZ is directed offshore leaving only 13% for onshore exploration. Australia is an LNG exporter but imports 55% of its domestic oil demand. … Continue Reading

Investing in Oil: 3 Canadian Oil Sands Stocks

April 3, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: canada oil sands, Canadian oil sands, canadian oil sands companies, canadian oil sands stocks, oil sands Canada, oil sands companies

Canada holds 175 billion barrels of oil in reserves, the third highest right after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. The Canadian oil sands account for 170 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the oil sands deposits of Northern Alberta. The figure rises to 315 billion barrels of potentially recoverable oil from the oil sands as extraction technologies improve and economic conditions remain robust. According to the International Energy Agency, demand for crude is expected to rise through 2035 fuelled mainly by increasing demand from Asia. Oil will remain an important part of the world energy landscape for years to come which … Continue Reading

Canadian Oil Stocks: Top 2 Alberta Bakken Oil Companies

January 21, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: alberta bakken, alberta bakken oil companies canada, alberta basin bakken, bakken oil, bakken oil companies, Bakken oil stocks, canadian oil companies, oil and gas stocks, oil companies, oil companies stock, oil exploration companies, small cap canadian oil companies

The Alberta Bakken light oil resource play was on fire in the first half of 2011 where investors bid stocks to new heights. But the market did not have realistic expectations as the play was exploratory in nature and could not be expected to yield initial production rates comparable to North Dakota’s Bakken play. As the first set of results appeared, demoralized investors exited these stocks in droves which fell from a premium valuation to fire sale lows.

The Alberta Bakken is far from dead as it is still in its early days. Land sales in Southern Alberta attracted over … Continue Reading

Canadian Oil Stocks: 3 Bakken Oil Companies

November 22, 2011 via CanadianOil Tagged With: bakken oil, bakken oil companies, bakken oil field companies, bakken oil producers, bakken oil shale, Bakken oil stocks, Canadian small cap oil stocks, junior oil stocks

The Bakken Formation is a large unconventional resource found throughout central Williston Basin (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Montana and North Dakota). The shales that comprise the upper and lower members of the Bakken are world class source rocks with a total thickness generally between 30-40m. The USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) 2008 estimate for technically recoverable reserves in the Bakken stands at 4.3 billion barrels, a figure expected to be reviewed higher. Some companies are estimating about 10 billion barrels in recoverable reserves!

Bakken oil companies are targeting light-sweet crude oil trapped within shale rock 10,000 feet below the surface. Bakken wells generally … Continue Reading

Canadian Dividend Stocks: Drilling Companies & Energy Services

November 14, 2011 via CanadianOil Tagged With: canadian dividend stocks, drilling services, drilling stocks, energy services, gas drilling companies, oil and gas drilling companies, oil drilling companies, oil drilling stocks, well completions, well drilling companies

Investing in drilling and energy services companies is a great way to expose a portfolio to the energy sector. It provides your portfolio with a broad exposure to the oil and gas commodity sector minus the risk producers and explorers have to deal with. Emerging North American oil resource plays are fuelling the industry momentum on the back of strong oil prices. A momentum that will potentially carry over into 2012 as the focus shifts away from dry gas into liquids in the US and Canada. The economics associated with oil and liquids rich plays are very attractive particularly when … Continue Reading

Investing for Income in Canadian Energy Trusts

November 8, 2011 via CanadianOil Tagged With: canadian energy trusts, eagle energy trust, energy income trust, energy income trusts, investing for income, parallel energy trust, tsx:egl.un, tsx:plt.un

Canadian energy trusts took a hit back in 2006 when the Canadian government decided to effectively end the tax benefits of the income trust structure for most trusts (REITs were spared). However, in 2011, a new version of this old investment vehicle emerged. These new energy income trusts are created to provide investors with oil & natural gas focused yield products and with favorable tax treatment relative to taxable Canadian corporations.

This tax efficient “mutual fund trust” structure is allowed as long as you do not hold Canadian assets; these are not SIFT trusts. Our featured trusts are both lead … Continue Reading

Canadian ETF List for Investing in Oil Stocks

August 17, 2011 via CanadianOil Tagged With: canada oil and gas etf, canadian energy etf, oil and gas etf, oil sands etf, oil stocks etf

The beauty of exchange traded funds (ETFs) is that they trade like regular stocks when it comes to transactions. However, their added value is in giving you exposure to a board set of securities in a sector or a subsector with only 1 purchase. Investors use ETFs as portfolio building blocks to invest in a commodity such as wheat, soybeans or sugar. When it comes to oil, ETFs are perfect for subtracting the risk of exploration and production specific to production and exploration companies.

We will look at 4 Canadian ETFs that you can choose from along with … Continue Reading

Canadian Oil stocks: 3 Heavy Oil Junior Producers

August 3, 2011 via CanadianOil Tagged With: best oil stocks, canadian dividend stocks, canadian oil and gas, canadian oil and gas companies, canadian oil companies, heavy crude oil, heavy oil companies, heavy oil producers, heavy oil production, investing oil, oil and gas investments, oil and gas stocks, oil investments, oil stocks canada

Canadian heavy oil production is centered in the greater Lloyminster region covering both sides of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border where companies enjoy year round access. The oil is extracted from multiple-zone formations at shallow drill depth of 400-700 meters. To date, only 6.5% has been recovered from the 32 billion barrels of initial petroleum in place.

Oil produced from the greater Lloydminster fields falls in the heavy oil category as it has API gravity between 10° and 22°. It’s called heavy because it does not flow easily; it’s a gooey type of crude. The API gravity measures how heavy or light … Continue Reading

Canadian Dividend Stocks: The Intermediate Oil and Gas Producers

May 16, 2011 via CanadianOil Tagged With: best oil stocks, canadian dividend stocks, canadian oil and gas, canadian oil and gas companies, canadian oil companies, dividend stocks, investing in dividend stocks, investing oil, oil and gas investments, oil and gas stocks, oil investments, oil stocks canada, top dividend stocks

We are looking for Canadian dividend paying intermediate oil and gas companies producing between 10,000 boed and 100,000 boed. Canada produces more than 3 million barrels of oil per day of which the majority is exported to the US. Thanks to the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin’s favourable geological characteristics, Canada is uniquely positioned to provide our world energy responsibly and reliably since oil and gas will continue to play an important role in the global energy supply mix.

The Canadian oil and gas sector is well positioned to return substantial profits to investors as oil and gas production grows year … Continue Reading

Canadian Oil Stocks: Top 2 Slave Point Oil Juniors

April 20, 2011 via CanadianOil Tagged With: best oil stocks, border petroleum, canadian oil and gas companies, investing oil, oil and gas investments, oil and gas stocks, oil investments, oil stocks canada, penn west petroleum, pinecrest energy, slave point oil stocks

The Slave Point formation is a layer of sedimentary rock composed primarily of oil bearing carbonate minerals: mostly limestone and dolostone having low permeability (the capacity of a rock or sediment to move water or other fluids through its pore space.)

In the Greater Red Earth area of north central Alberta, the Slave Point formation is a proven oil producer since the 1960’s when the first vertical wells struck oil. In addition to producing light, sweet oil of 35°-40° API, the formation produces low rates of water production and low solution gas volumes. The industry estimates 1 billion barrels of … Continue Reading

Canadian Oil Stocks: Top Viking Oil Juniors

March 21, 2011 via CanadianOil Tagged With: best oil stocks, canadian oil and gas companies, compass petroleum, investing oil, kallisto energy, novus energy, oil and gas investments, oil and gas stocks, oil investments, oil stocks canada, petro viking energy, top canadian stocks, tse:wfe, tsxv:cpo, tsxv:kec, tsxv:nvs, tsxv:vik, Viking oil formation, Viking oil juniors, Viking oil play, Viking oil stocks, westfire energy

The Viking oil play is an established light oil conventional play which is only second to the Cardium formation when it comes to original oil in place (OOIP). This oil bearing formation has already been delineated with vertical drilling in WC Saskatchewan as it has been known since its discovery in 1957. With the advent of horizontal drilling and advanced completion techniques (multistage fraccing) it is now possible to tap oil trapped in thick shaly intervals that was once deemed uneconomic to exploit. Most of the land is locked up by major producers but a few juniors managed to assemble … Continue Reading