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Archive for March, 2008
Reconsideration: Consol Backs Off Of CNX Gas
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Consol Energy Inc. has withdrawn its minority-close-out offer for the 18% of CNX Gas Corp. it currently holds, as "certain" shareholders wanted more money. It's initial offer was low, considering ... Read more..Know Thy Hostile Shareholder: Recommendations From The Conference Board Study Group
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
At least one participant in a study cited by The Conference Board in a new report said he found out from a news report that an activist investor had accumulated ... Read more..What’s Your Cell Number Worth? Priceless!
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
A local radio station, 1180 AM, began broadcasting my cell number as its own a few weeks ago. Callers were looking for Achmed at first, so I imagined Achmed had ... Read more..Oil & Gas 101: Valero Is Not An ‘Oil Company’
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Surprised? Valero isn't an "oil company" in the sense that most Americans think of an "oil company." Valero is an oil refiner, and fuel marketer and retailer. It does not ... Read more..Hookizontals, Deathanol: Words That Aren’t In Bill Gates’ Dictionary
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The prodigious oil and gas industry is also quite clever in its nomenclature, a necessary exercise when in the business of discovery. Here are a few words that aren't in ... Read more..FOMC Has 125 Points Of Power Left To Go
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Chairman Bernanke et al. have erred on the side of continuing to prop up the U.S. stock market, cutting the fed funds rate 75 points this afternoon to 2.25. With monetary ... Read more..Tale Of Two Cities: NYC Financial Markets; Houston Oil Boom
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
The economy right now is "really a tale of two cities," Peter Gaw, president of CIT Energy, tells Elliott Forrest, the Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and producer, in a new podcast ... Read more..Sierra Club Further Explains Its U.S. Natural Gas Position
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
The Sierra Club has further qualified its position on U.S. natural gas production with the following letter since Oil and Gas Investor reported last week on its support of the ... Read more..Dan Pickering Wins Poker Tournament, Bragging Rights
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
And the winner is ... Dan Pickering, the popular energy analyst who leads the research team at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities Inc. Pickering won the recent third annual ... Read more..June 9-11, Houston: The Energy Capital Workshop, Forum and Investment Symposium
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Oil and Gas Investor's Energy Capital Forum, Worskhop and Investment Symposium will be June 9, 10 and 11 this year in Houston at the Westin Galleria. The conference, formerly known ... Read more..