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We provide independent advisory services that evaluate commodity price trend shifts, price volatility, Sentiment, industry activity shifts, and opportunities and threats in the oil and gas industry for producers, the service sector, the investment community, and consumers of crude and refined petroleum and natural gas products.

A linkage between the timing of these events and key strategic and operational decisions can be made through the use of our proprietary reports and timing tools. We add value to the client through enhancing the information for key decisions around growth, cost reduction, value preservation, and cycle time reduction.

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TIMING CAN MAKE OR BREAK THE ROI on an acquisition or divestiture. ls there a better time to do an asset or corporate deal? Could now be that time for a great ROI?

Your view on where the oil and gas industry is relative to commodity cycles will shape the decisions that can significantly affect the future of your company over the next few years – should we buy now, sell now, hedge, lever up the balance sheet, weight toward oil or gas?

Come and hear when SBM sees the right time to buy or sell oil and natural gas is, and how they can create significant profit and competitive advantage for you in improving your timing.

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Conventional Crude Oil
Weekly Update
January 27, 2012


Here Comes Portugal

Greece is working hard to get back on the front pages. Unless private creditors can agree with the Greek government about a 50% “haircut”, Greece will likely default by March when the next tranche of contingent bailout money is due. The Greek government and the creditors continue to play a game of .....

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Natural Gas
Weekly Update
January 27, 2012

Beginning of the End, Beginning of the Beginning

Chesapeake’s announcement of a cut back in gas rigs plus 0.5 Bcf/d of shut-ins is a sign of the required supply behavioural shift required to move the System to LS/LD. It is also a sign of the coming supply shock that will open the door .....

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The U.S. Dollar - Where To From Here

The U.S. dollar represents a gauge measuring the markets’ move toward high return/higher risk ($US falling) or risk aversion ($US rising). Longer term, we expect the U.S. dollar to continue its downward trend as the U.S. government issues massive amounts of new debt. However, in the short term, the dollar was rising as risk aversion grew. A major spike in the $US could cause a lot of commodity selling as speculators are leveraged to the long commodities/short $US trades. The dollar index rallied as the risk aversion trade was on and a great deal of uncertainty shrouded the European debt crises of Greece, Ireland, Portugal and others, but is again weakening relative to other unpegged currencies.

The U.S. Dollar Index is a weighted gauge against the Euro, Yen, Pound, and three other currencies.

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