Mike was one of the first employees with Longview Capital Partners, now Resinco Capital Partners, helping build the team of Investor Relations professionals that work with that company’s investee companies. He saw a lack of independent, unbiased media in the exploration/mining market. When approached by John Gomez to work on the site U3O8.biz, he saw the opportunity to provide that model to the market.
Previously, Mike was an active member of Vancouver’s high tech industry for 15 years building sales and marketing teams and helping companies manage significant growth. These companies have been recognized as among the fastest growing in Canada, and have won numerous awards including the BC Export Award and Deloitte’s 50 Best Managed Private Companies. Mike was awarded the Business in Vancouver 40 under 40 in 2004 for his role in helping build three separate rapidly growing high tech companies.
On Economic Straight Talk, Arthur Berman talks about why the big oil companies are looking at shale plays in the US to replace their reserves. The article is quoted: Major oil companies exited onshore North America during the mid-1980′s to early 1990′s because of dwindling opportunities of sufficient size to meet the economic requirements of [...]
Despite the volatility involved in investing in commodities and the energy market, the United States Gasoline Fund has recently proven adept at tracking gasoline prices.
Chief Economist David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff and Associates Inc. believes market fundamentals support oil at $85-$95 a barrel, a view shared by Richard D. Soultanian of NUS Consulting Group, commenting that “The market is pricing in a lot of risk and a lot of fear right now”.
The political uprisings in the oil-rich region of the Middle East and North Africa are pushing oil prices to a dangerous level that threatens to force many still recovering economies into another recession. Wayne Atwell, Managing Director of Casimir Capital, spoke with Oil Investing News, a part of The Resource Investing News Network, about the possible implications for the resource markets.
Neste Oil sells its Sines plant in Portugal. Neste Oil divests its Portuguese subsidiary Neste Oil Portugal S.A.,owning an ETBE plant in Sines,to the Portuguese company Repsol Polimeros LDA.
Nextraction Energy Corporation (TSX-V: NE) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nextraction Energy (US) Inc., and its operating partner, Vantage Energy, have commenced completion operations for the Noble 6-24 well in the northern region of the Pinedale Anticline.
Hemisphere Energy Corporation (TSX VENTURE:HME) announces that it has filed its reports related to oil and gas reserves for the year ended February 28, 2010 in accordance with Canadian Securities Regulators National Instrument 51-101 Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities (“NI 51-101″).
Estrella International Energy Services Ltd. (formerly, Everest Ventures Corp.) (TSX VENTURE:EEN) is pleased to announce that on June 25, 2010, it completed its previously announced proposed Qualifying Transaction with Estrella Overseas Limited pursuant to a merger agreement dated April 30, 2010 whereby its wholly-owned subsidiary in the British Virgin Islands, Everest (BVI) Limited, merged with Estrella.
