Water: The Next Great Investment in the Oil Patch

Submitted by Ralph_Curton on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 2:16pm

It looks like if you’re in oil and gas, you’d better realize you’re also in water. This article, from Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin, puts a pencil to water’s exploding demand and prices – all happening during drought conditions: “Water: The Next Great Investment in the Oil Patch”

Big Oil Comes Home

Submitted by Ralph_Curton on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 4:10pm

Ralph Thurston recommends Big Oil Comes Home article from the Wall Street Journal.

http://goo.gl/X33sa

Oil Doesn’t Care

Submitted by Ralph_Curton on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 1:15pm

Nǐ hǎo. Just back from a business trip to Hong Kong. A friend – a world traveler and a world class shopper – accompanying me described Hong Kong as “a combination of New York, Paris, and Dallas on STEROIDS”. Very well put, Sara!

What a thriving, positive, upbeat environment it is. Cranes everywhere. Business people from around the globe networking, exchanging ideas, and making deals. Bustling marketplaces, especially luxury stores.

Green Oil

Submitted by Ralph_Curton on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 9:47am

False choices make for bad business. In our business, we keep hearing about green energy vs. oil and gas. That’s a false choice.

First, we don’t have to choose. Our country – and other countries for that matter – should be pursuing the widest possible range of energy options.

Second, the implication that oil is antithetic to green is false. Maybe those who pose the choice think of oil in terms of a Deepwater Horizon disaster, but that’s like thinking of cruise ships in terms of the Titanic. Here are the facts, courtesy of Energy Tomorrow:

Where’s my #!@ Phone? Where Are the Jobs?

Submitted by Ralph_Curton on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:42pm

Don’t tell me you’ve never done this. You’re on your mobile, rushing to leave, grabbing keys and sunglasses, and then you panic, slapping your pockets, maybe even fretting to your caller, “I can’t find my phone!”

You feel ridiculous and so should our political leaders, careening around the country fretting, “Where are the jobs?” while keeping a boot on the throat of the industry that employs 2.1 people in America. That’s right. 2.1 million.

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