That said, one of the most fundamental rules we’ve learned from investment professionals at any level is that it’s not wise to keep your eggs in one basket, because if the basket should fall, all your eggs will be broken. To put it another way: spread your risk.
There are many opportunities to do this if you are an institutional investor, because the potential size of investment that you can make means that companies and sectors are always likely to be very accommodating.
If your means are more modest however, your support is less likely to have been welcomed in…
Enhancements in technology have the potential to help the oil and gas sector ensure its future, making the process of discovering, refining, transporting and delivering natural resources significantly more efficient and transparent.
The PermianChain platform has been designed to deliver these enhancements without the need for significant investment on the part of oil and gas firms. Using modern, blockchain technology, PermianChain can be integrated with existing systems and working practices to deliver efficiency and transparency that will bring down costs, satisfy regulators and attract the attention of investors of all sizes.
The positive news is that there are technologies emerging that offer a superb opportunity to augment efficiency and transparency right across the oil and gas sector supply chain, and go some way answering the concerns of regulators, investors and consumers.
The long and the short of it is that using drone-based cameras coupled with sensitive sets of sensors, it is going to become increasingly easy to spot where natural gas is being wasted as a result of leaks, flares or venting.
Canada has a highly regulated oil and gas sector which has a keen focus on staying competitive with emerging alternative energy sources, and also takes its environmental responsibilities seriously. …
Several global organisations including Facebook and Google have stated their ambition to become carbon neutral within the next decade. Many governments around the world are also committed to decarbonising their economies, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson who recently promised that windfarms will power every home in the country by 2030.
While there continues to be debate in certain quarters about the reality of global warming, there is increasing evidence that renewable energy is moving towards achieving the scale it needs to become an important and economically viable part of the global energy mix. …
Irrespective of where you stand on the environmental debate, there are few that would argue that the economics of the oil and gas sector are currently a little off kilter. On the one hand you have a sector that is struggling to find funding for viable oil fields, and on the other, when oil is being extracted, it is often accompanied by gas which is simply flared off. …
As we have discussed on several occasions, the complexity of oil and gas projects coupled with the timescales involved has meant that it is easier to focus fund-raising efforts on major investors that have the depth of pocket to fulfil financial requirements with very little effort.
There has been a well-trodden path between oil and gas and institutional investment organisations with relationships that sometimes stretch back decades.
In recent years however, some oil and gas organisations have started to find it more difficult to drum up funding from traditional sources. Some in the investment industry have been raising an eyebrow…
The economic challenges of the last few months have led to a lot of organisations and regulators taking a fresh look at their positions on cryptocurrencies, with several announcing accelerated adoption strategies. The latest of these is MicroStrategy, a US-based independent business intelligence company, which has announced a plan to purchase more than 20,000 bitcoins as part of a new capital allocation strategy (which you can read here).
The interest in bitcoin is being driven by several factors, not least of which is that it appears to be a hedging strategy against traditional, fiat currency fluctuations as the ramifications of…
Deutsche Bank’s move away from supporting oilsands projects is another milestone in the world’s journey towards a more energy efficient future but it doesn’t come out of the blue. As we discussed in one of our recent articles, according to The Economist, energy’s weighting on the S&P 500 dipped below 5% in June 2019, less than a third of its 2008 level. Meanwhile, the European Investment Bank has decided to stop supporting oil, gas and coal projects by the end of 2021.
As the Calgary Herald’s article points out, the decision to reduce investment in the oil and gas sector…
PermianChain harnesses blockchain technology to digitize, tokenize and monetize proven natural resources, starting with oil and gas.