OIl & Gas: “All Hell is Breaking Loose in the Arctic”

On days like today, I don’t have to spend much time deciding which of the dozens of teaser pitches we receive to cover — it’s unanimous, Gumshoe readers are crying out for a solution to the latest pitch from Dr. Kent Moors.

Moors is an energy expert and Duquesne professor, and he sells the expertise he’s gained as an energy consultant over the years by turning it into stock ideas that are sold through both an entry level newsletter (Energy Advantage) and an “upgrade” letter for those folks who want his very best super-secret ideas called Energy Inner Circle.

That basic strategy is not, of course, unique to Dr. Moors or to his publisher, Money Map Press — every newsletter publisher’s goal is to break even on the $39 subscriptions and use those people as the marketing pool for their super-lucrative $300 or $1,200 or $5,000 newsletters. From the comments I get this makes readers crazy (“I already paid for this guy’s information that he promised would be awesome, why is he now offering to sell me something better for a lot more money?”), but it also must work great … because everyone does it.

But anyway, most of you don’t care about this “behind the veil” stuff about newsletterland — you just want the idea, right? So let’s try to ID it for you.

Dr. Moors’ pitch is based on the Russian push to dominate the next wave of oil discovery and production in the Arctic — they got a lot of attention for planting their flag on the sea bed at the North Pole six years ago, part of a global dispute over territory in the arctic, territory that is becoming open to energy exploration and additional sea traffic partly because of receding ice and partly because of new technologies. Norway, Denmark, Canada, the US and several other countries with arctic borders are disputing Russia’s claim that it “owns” the 2/3 or so of the subsea arctic that extends North of their land mass, and the current international agreement is for a 200 mile “economic zone,” so the political squabbling will no doubt continue for a long time — and become much more vociferous if natural resources can feasibly be extracted. Moors reports the claim that 20% of the world’s oil and gas reserves are waiting to be discovered or developed deep under the northern ice, and it’s a huge area so, well, who knows?

But his big claim for this pitch is that the other pundits who recommend the arctic explorers and the oil majors who are staking claims off of Greenland or Alaska or north of Russia or Canada aren’t the best idea for making money — largely because it will take years and years before any of this bears fruit.

No, he says that the best way to profit immediately is by buying the subsea pipeline expert that can build the infrastructure for this arctic work.

Here’s a taste of the big picture tease, just to get you up to speed:

…..read more HERE (Warning, its long)