Investing Topics: Hydraulic Fracturing

Focus On The Permania

By Elliott H. Gue on Apr. 21, 2017

The latest additions to the Energy & Income Advisor Focus List have lagged of late, primarily because of the selloff in West Texas Intermediate crude oil. In light of these recent market moves, we we revisit our outlook and investment strategy.

Water Technologies and Sustainable Fracking

By Roger S. Conrad on Nov. 7, 2016

The energy industry’s growing consumption of fresh water for hydraulic fracturing and approaches to disposing the resulting wastewater have created significant challenges. We highlight some of the solutions.

Schlumberger and Halliburton Call the Bottom: Now What?

By Elliott H. Gue on Aug. 1, 2016

Schlumberger and Halliburton’s management teams called a bottom in the North American oil-field services market, but the timing, pace and magnitude of the recovery may disappoint investors.

Oddball V-MLPs

By Elliott H. Gue on Jun. 25, 2014

Publicly traded partnerships that pay a variable distribution are a niche part of the MLP space that’s home to several oddball MLPs that have few mainstream analogues.

Swimming Upstream

By Elliott H. Gue on Dec. 11, 2013

Despite the underperformance of master limited partnerships (MLP) that produce oil and gas this year, New Source Energy Partners LP still went public. Here’s out take on this upstream operator and Emerge Energy Services LP, a newly listed MLP that pays a variable distribution and produces specialized silica sand for use in hydraulic fracturing.

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