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  1. Offshore Development and the Economic Nonrecovery • August 26, 2009

    Dear Outstanding Investments Reader: To quote Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, I’ve been working “like a galley slave.” Except instead of running Russia, I’ve merely been writing and editing your next issue of Outstanding Investments. The main investment article in the October issue concerns one of the world’s best long-term plays in the deep-water development sector. This firm [...]

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  2. A Sell Recommendation — Trinity Industries • August 19, 2009

    Dear Outstanding Investments Reader: Many thanks to the readers who wrote to comment on last week’s report on the oil sands operation of Syncrude Canada Ltd. That e-mail was just Part I of my report on my trip to Alberta a couple weeks ago. I’m working on Part II, concerning the ConocoPhillips project at Surmont, which [...]

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  3. Update on Canada’s Oil Sands — Part I • August 12, 2009

    Dear Outstanding Investments Reader: Last week, I had the unique opportunity to tour two different oil sands operations near Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta. I saw a massive open-pit oil sands mine, and the associated reclamation effort, operated by Syncrude Canada Ltd. I also visited an in situ oil sands recovery project called Surmont, operated by [...]

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  4. Don’t Miss the Next Round of Oil Profits From the Deep-water “Gold Rush” Now’s Your Chance to Cash in on an Investment Idea That Works Best “Under Pressure” • August 10, 2009

    Download PDF In 1833, two brothers, Charles and Elias Cooper, opened the C&E Cooper Co., an iron foundry, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, about 40 miles northeast of Columbus. The two men saw a need for iron products used by local farmers, such as plow blades, hog troughs, syrup kettles, wagon springs and stoves. From the start, the [...]

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  5. 470 Years Ago Spanish Explorers Overlooked an Immense Fortune of Oil …But now this Spanish Treasure is Yours! And Now’s the Best Time to Add it to Your Portfolio • August 1, 2009

    Download PDF In 1539, the Spanish galleon Santa Cruz left Venezuela, bound for home. The cargo manifest listed three barrels of black liquid skimmed from the rocks, lakes and streams of the New World. “It Tastes Most Foul,” Wrote an Early Explorer What was this unknown stuff in the barrels onboard Santa Cruz? It was petroleum, of course, [...]

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