Archives: February 2007
Wed Feb 14, 2007
'Investing in Oil & Gas & Production Success is Established'
Finding oil & gas production is exciting, especially when you labor, and work hard, and provided you are willing and able to exercise the patience needed to establish commercial quantities of oil & gas in the US today.
Investing in oil & gas is a whole lot of fun when you finally hit the jack pot, and especially when you do so while others around you are helping you achieve your goal of successfully drilling, completing, and hooking-up new oil & gas wells. This most satisfying process of discovering, and finding oil & gas in quantities that can make investors better than average monthly returns on their money, is the single thing that is most gratifying for me to see.
My company recently opened-up several upper zones of some new oil wells we drilled recently, and achieved the results we expected, and possibly better results than expected. This success is part of a diversified portfolio of wells we have private investor participation. We accomplished these results in less than a year from our first funding efforts, and we did so during winter, and while experiencing terrible field conditions in the process. Needless to say, we are quite happy with our pace of development, and our investors are too...
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Wed Feb 07, 2007
'Investing in Oil & Gas Direct Participation Offerings in 2007'
Oil and Gas Investing in 2007 is a bit different than in the past in the United States. It's an older industry now, and only a select few of the oil and gas professionals capable of doing the required work to develop our US oil & gas leases still remain. Some of their sons who are second, or third generation family members have elected to stay in our industry, but they are few and far between.
We lost over 500,000 oil and gas professionals, and newly minted college, and university trained geologists, engineers, and other key people needed in our oil & gas business in the late 70's, and early 80's. Most of these industry professionals never returned to our business. We have the old timers, and they can get the job done, but many are retiring, and dying. Therefore, finding the most experienced and still living professionals in our energy industry is a big challenge, but a critical one, if you are going to consider investing, and working with smaller independent companies who can do a good job for you as an investor in direct participation, and private oil & gas investing development projects.
My experience of 25 years of working with promoters, and oil & gas people, including being an operator myself, and working with other operators, and smaller oil & gas companies has been career of both success, and sometimes great frustration. Unfortunately, there is no law against incompentence in our country, a fact which is recognized, and taken advantage of by the unscrupulous, and simply incompetent, who know how to promote themselves well. Some of the best operators are not the best sales people, and frankly are usually not great communicators. They however must be good businessmen, and must handle the many daily details to be successful, as they properly operate oil & gas leases we develop in the US.
Stay away from the oil and gas promoters...in my experience, their salespeople know very little about the products, and deals they promote...and their 'promoter managment' usually keeps them in the dark about the bottom line details of the the deals they are promoting. Learn to deal directly with an operator, or oil company owner, who can control the majority interest of an oil & gas deal. In fact, few oil & gas operators would be interested in operating a legitimate oil & gas lease unless they control it with over 50% ownership of the working interest. You should have the right to deal directly with the issuer's of an oil & gas development project, and that also means being able to talk directly with, and request information about an offering directly from the operator of record. You want to know things you are getting like net revenue interest, working interest conveyed, actual costs to drill and complete wells, and all costs, unless the company is offering a turn-key, and if so, the integrity, and commitment of the company needs to be outstanding.
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